Module:MenuData

Documentation for this module may be created at Module:MenuData/doc

local p = {}

function p.renderJSON(frame)
  -- Fetch main radial menu items
  local mainRows = mw.ext.externalData.getExternalData({
    source = "externaldb",
    from = "site_radial_menu",
    data = "name=name,icon=icon_url,position=position,category=category,url=link_url"
  })

  -- Fetch submenu items
  local subRows = mw.ext.externalData.getExternalData({
    source = "externaldb",
    from = "site_radial_submenu",
    data = "menu_category=menu_category,name=name,url=link_url,sort_order=sort_order"
  })

  -- Group submenu items by category
  local subMap = {}
  for _, sub in ipairs(subRows) do
    local cat = sub.menu_category
    if not subMap[cat] then subMap[cat] = {} end
    table.insert(subMap[cat], {
      name = sub.name,
      url = sub.url,
      sort_order = tonumber(sub.sort_order) or 0
    })
  end

  -- Sort submenus
  for _, list in pairs(subMap) do
    table.sort(list, function(a, b)
      return a.sort_order < b.sort_order
    end)
  end

  -- Attach submenus to main menu items
  for _, item in ipairs(mainRows) do
    item.subcategories = subMap[item.category] or {}
  end

  -- JSON encode the final structure
  local json = mw.text.jsonEncode(mainRows)

  -- Safely generate <script> element that MediaWiki won’t escape
  local Html = mw.html
  local tag = Html.create('script')
    :attr('id', 'radialMenuData')
    :attr('type', 'application/json')
    :wikitext(json)

  return tostring(tag)
end

return p