Module:Check for unknown parameters/doc

Module:Check for unknown parameters is used to check for uses of unknown parameters in a template or module. It may be appended to a template at the end or called directly from a module.

Usage

From a template

To sort entries into a tracking category by parameter, use:

• Template:Mlx

To sort the entries into a tracking category by parameter with a preview error message, use:

• Template:Mlx

For an explicit red error message, use:

• Template:Mlx

To use Lua patterns, use:

• Template:Mlx

From a module

To call from a module, use:

local checkForUnknownParameters = require("Module:Check for unknown parameters")
local result = checkForUnknownParameters._check(validArgs, args)

Where the first set of args are the module args below and the second set of args are the parameters that are checked.

Parameters

• arg1, arg2, ..., argN, are the known parameters.
• Unnamed (positional) parameters can be added too: |1|2|arg1|arg2|....
• Lua patterns (similar to regular expressions) usage with parameters is also supported (such as: Template:Para, Template:Para, Template:Para). This is useful when there are many known parameters which use a systematic pattern.
• Template:Para – what happens when an unknown parameter is used. Typically use either a tracking category to place pages that use unknown parameters, or an error.
• Template:Para – the text to be displayed when in preview mode and an unknown parameter is used.
• The _VALUE_ keyword, if used, will be changed to the name of the parameter. This is useful for either sorting the entries in a tracking category, or for provide more explicit information.
• Template:Para – by default, the module makes no distinction between a defined-but-blank parameter and a non-blank parameter. That is, both unlisted Template:Para and Template:Para are reported. To only track non-blank parameters use Template:Para. If you clean your arguments with Module:Arguments and call this module afterwards, you need not use this parameter as that module ignores blank arguments by default.
• Template:Para – by default, the module ignores blank positional parameters. That is, an unlisted Template:Para is ignored. To Template:Em blank positional parameters in the tracking use Template:Para.
• Template:Para – When this is set to a non-null value, the various Module:Infobox mapframe parameters will be automatically included in the list of valid parameters. This eliminates the need to manually add all 20+ params. NOTE this should only be used when Template:Mlx is in the template calling Check for unknown. Do NOT use if using {{Infobox mapframe}} as not all parameters are included when calling the template.

Example

{{Infobox
| above = {{{name|}}}

| label1 = Height
| data1 = {{{height|}}}

| label2 = Weight
| data2 = {{{weight|}}}

| label3 = Website
| data3 = {{{website|}}}
}}<!-- 
  end infobox, start tracking
-->{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check
| unknown = {{Main other|[[Category:Some tracking category|_VALUE_]]}}
| preview = unknown parameter "_VALUE_" | height | name | website | weight 
}}

Call from within Lua code

See the end of Module:Rugby box for a simple example or Module:Infobox3cols or Module:Flag for more complicated examples.

See also

• Template:Clc (category page can have header {{Unknown parameters category}})
• Template:Checks for unknown parameters – adds documentation to templates using this module
• Module:Check for deprecated parameters – similar module that checks for deprecated parameters
• Module:Check for conflicting parameters – module that checks for conflicting parameters
• Module:TemplatePar – similar function (originally from dewiki)
• Template:Parameters and Module:Parameters – generates a list of parameter names for a given template
• Project:TemplateData based template parameter validation
• Module:Parameter validation checks a lot more

User scripts

• User:Bamyers99/TemplateParametersTool - A tool for checking usage of template parameters
• User:Zackmann08/scripts/AddCheckForUnknownParameters and User:Frietjes/addcheckforunknownparameters.js, scripts for to quickly and easily generate wikitext for {{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check}} with the parameters in the template