Wikipedia:Lua/Modul/Data/en

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Data – module with central access to external table data or to its data providing submodules

Functions for templates

importData

yields data from Commons tables.

Parameters:

1 or object – selects data from an object (for example: DE-081280131 for Wertheim).
2 or selection – selects numerically or nonnumerically data from a topical selection of the selected object.
selectionName – selects nonnumerically data from a topical selection of the selected object.
3 or version – selects numerically or nonnumerically data from a (temporal) version of the selected selection.
versionDate – selects nonnumerically data from a (temporal) version of the selected selection.
current – selects data from the present version of the selected selection.
4 or key – selects data of the selected version on a key.
tryOther – provides data from older versions on the key.
5 or field – selects a statement from the selection made by the selecting arguments.
objectError – provides a custom message for an incorrect selected object.
selectionError – provides a custom message for an incorrect selected selection.
versionError – provides a custom message for an incorrect selected (temporal) version.
keyError – provides a custom message for an incorrect selected key.
fieldError – provides a custom message for an incorrect selected field.
keyAddition – provides a custom message for a key on summed data.
arg1 – provides a custom value.

invokeData

calls getData in the submodule or creates an error message respectively a link to create the submodule.

Parameters:

1 or object – selects the submodule (for example: CH-AG for Kanton Aargau).
2 or selection – transmits the argument selection to the submodule.
3 or version – transmits the argument version to the submodule.
4 or key – transmits the argument key to the submodule.
5 or field – transmits the argument field to the submodule.
Additional parameters are transmitted like specified as arguments to the submodule.

evaluate

evaluates expressions.

Parameters:

1 – provides the nonnumerical result or the numerical value which can be inserted in parameter 2.
2 – provides the expression in which all # are replaced by the numerical value from parameter 1 and which is evaluated for the result thereupon.

A test page illustrates practical use.

There are no such functions.

It is used as general auxiliary in templates.

The module is depending on the actual submodule.