Module:Cronos/doc

The Module:Cronos is the core of the Meta:Cronos project and it's the Lua module implementing these templates:

• {{Cronos month}}
• {{Cronos list}}

See their related documentation for normal usage from wikitext.

Proceed in this page to discover how to read events using Cronos' public Lua APIs.

Overview

The source code of Module:Cronos is object-oriented and with lot of in-line documentation. Read-it.

In short there are some classes:

CronosEvent

whatever event (party, session, hackaton, etc.)

CronosDay

collector of events happening in a specific day

CronosCategory

one for each Event, this is its icon (see phab:T254586)

CronosCalendarContext

unuseful utility class used to store preferences and filters (e.g. Tags)

CronosDay API

You can access the data of a single Event from other Lua modules:

-- load the module
local Cronos = require( 'Module:Cronos' )

-- load a single day
local day = Cronos._day( '2019-03-25' )

-- load related events sorted by time
local events = day:getEventsSortedByTime()

-- loop these events
for i, event in pairs( events ) do

	-- examine start date
	mw.logObject( event:getStartDate() )

	-- examine end date
	mw.logObject( event:getEndDate() )

	-- examine its category icon
	mw.logObject( event:getCategory():getIconWikitext() )

	-- examine some other data available in the CronosEvent object
	mw.logObject( event )

end

CronosCategory API

You can also obtain other information like a known Category:

-- load the module
local Cronos = require( 'Module:Cronos' )

-- load a single category
local category = Cronos._category( 'libre' )

-- examine its icon
mw.logObject( category:getIconWikitext() )

-- examine its user identifier (e.g. 'libre')
mw.logObject( category.uid )

-- examine its name (e.g. 'Free Software initiatives')
mw.logObject( category.name )

-- examine some other data available in the CronosCategory object
mw.logObject( category )

Other APIs

Please look at the source code for everything exported in the p-ackage. The source code is intensively in-line documented.

Questions / Issues

For any question or idea feel free to write in the talk page pinging the current maintainer who is User:Valerio Bozzolan.

For any issue feel free to open a new Task in Wikimedia Phabricator with the #WMCH-Cronos Tag and assign it to valerio.bozzolan: Create a Task.

See also

• Meta:Cronos
• Template:Cronos month/Head
• Template:Cronos event brief
• mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual