Module:Sandbox

 -- Placeholder
 -- THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. USE CAREFULLY AND TEST EXTENSIVELY.

 local p = {}


 function p.assembleMessage(frame)
 --[[ This function takes existing translations for a given page
  translated using the translate extension and puts them together to
  generate the wikicode ready to be delivered by [Global message delivery]
  ]]

 -- Initialize the message's static content

 local message = '<pre>{{subst:#switch:{{subst:CONTENTLANG}}'

 --[[ Build the list of language codes for which there is a translation,
  and remove English if it was mistakenly added since we already include
  it as default.
  We can't automatically list all available translations of the issue, so
  we need to input them manually as part of the module's call.
  ]]
 
 translations = {}
 
 for key, value in pairs( frame.args ) do
 if ( mw.language.isKnownLanguageTag( value ) and value ~= 'en' )
 then
 translations[value] = value
 end
 end
 
 -- Add English as default
 
 translations['#default'] = 'en'

 -- Loop through the languages to assemble the available translations

 for switchKey, langCode in pairs( translations ) do
 
 --[[ TODO: add existence check of the translation in case of human
  error. Ignore the incorrect language code and give warning.
  ]]
 
 -- Add new switch key, and language and directionality metadata
 
 local direction = mw.language.new( langCode ):getDir()
 
 --[[ TODO: add switch keys for languages that have a fallback language
  for which we do have a translation, instead of English.
  ]]
 
 message = message .. '|' .. switchKey .. '=<div class="plainlinks" lang="' .. langCode .. '" dir="' .. direction .. '">'
 
 -- Get the translation's content
 
 local page = frame.args['page']
 
 local content = mw.title.new( page .. '/' .. langCode ):getContent()
 
 --[[ Clean up stuff we don't want to include (headers, footers, etc.)
  There's probably a cleaner way to do this but for now it'll work.
  TODO: add error checks.
  ]]
 return startIndex
 end
 
 -- Add footer static content
 
 message = message .. '}} ~~~~~</pre>'
 
 -- Hide nowiki tags from the preprocessor
 
 message = mw.ustring.gsub ( message, '<nowiki>(.-)</nowiki>', '&lt;nowiki&gt;%1&lt;/nowiki&gt;' )
 
 -- Preprocess to make <pre> work
 
 message = frame:preprocess( message )
 
 -- We're done

 return message

 end


 return p