Module:Ancient Olympiads

-- This module implements {{Ancient Olympiads}}. It converts a year in the Gregorian
-- calendar to the equivalent year of the ancient Greek era organized by Olympiads.

local data = mw.loadData( 'Module:Ancient Olympiads/data' )
local lang = mw.language.getContentLanguage()

local p = {}

function p._main( inputYear )
	-- Convert the input to an integer if possible. Return "N/A" if the input could
	-- not be converted, or if the converted input is too big or too small.
	inputYear = tonumber( inputYear )
	if not inputYear or inputYear > tonumber( lang:formatDate( 'Y' ) ) then
		return "''N/A''"
	end

	-- Find the length of the data.
	-- We need the length of the data so that we can loop through it backwards.
	-- Normally we can get the length of tables with the # operator, but this
	-- doesn't work with mw.loadData, as mw.loadData uses a metatable, and the
	-- # operator doesn't work for tables that use metatables.
	local dataLength = 0
	for i, t in ipairs( data ) do
		dataLength = i
	end

	-- Find the year in the data page and display the output.
	for i = dataLength, 1, -1 do
		local t = data[i]
		if inputYear -2 == t.year then
			-- year of the Olympiad, test with = p._main( -496 )
			-- Don't know why, but in the calendar the input year needs to be corrected by 2 
			-- The specification 'Winner of the Stadtion race' could also be done with a <ref>note</note>, but I like my current solution for its simplicity of display.
		return string.format(
			'%s [[Olympiad]] ([[%s|victor]][[Winner of the Stadion race|)¹]]',
			t.numberOl, t.winner
		)
		end
        if inputYear -2 > t.year then
			-- Years 2-4 of the Olympiad, test with = p._main( -495 )  etc.
			-- Don't know why, but in the calendar the input year needs to be corrected by 2 
		return string.format(
			'%s [[Olympiad]], year %d',
			t.numberOl, inputYear - t.year + 1
		)
		end
	end

	-- If input year is before 776 BC, the year of the first Olympiad.
	if inputYear == - 777 then
	return string.format(
		'1 year before the [[776 BC|1st]] [[Olympiad]]'
	)
	end
	return string.format(
		'%d years before the [[776 BC|1st]] [[Olympiad]]',
		inputYear * -1 - 776
	)
end

function p.main( frame )
	-- If you only want to run this module from another Lua module, you can get
	-- rid of this function entirely. This function is only used if you want to
	-- run this individual module from a template.
	local args = require( 'Module:Arguments' ).getArgs( frame, {
		parentOnly = true
	} )
	return p._main( args[ 1 ] )
end

return p