Module:Error

Documentation [edit]

This module is used to display error messages in a consistent way and categorize pages that have them. See Template:Error for how to use this template in wikitext. For modules, see below.

Usage

local err = require('Module:Error').call
return err('error message', 'type')

This displays:

Parameters

• The first parameter is the text of the message to display. Must be a string. Highly recommended; the default message just says an error occurred in a script.
• The second parameter is the type of error, which determines the categorization. Must be a string. The default is "script". This will add the page to Category:Pages with script errors.

The above documentation is transcluded from Module:Error/doc.

local p = {}

--To be called by templates
function p.main(frame)
	local args = frame:getParent().args
	if not args['type'] or mw.text.trim(args['type']) == '' then
		args['type'] = 'template'
	end
	return p.call(args[1], args['type'])
end

--To be called by modules
function p.call(message, errType)
	if not errType or mw.text.trim(errType) == '' then
		errType = 'script'
	else
		errType = mw.ustring.lower(errType)
	end
	if not message or mw.text.trim(message) == '' then
		message = 'An error occurred (' .. errType .. ')'
	end
	local category = '[' .. '[' .. 'Category:Pages with ' .. errType .. ' errors]]'
	
	return '<span class="error">' .. message .. '</span>' .. category
end

return p