Module:LinkParser: Difference between revisions

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      wikiLinkCache[cacheKey] = result
      return result
+end
+-- Creates a {{fullurl:...}} wikitext string with URL-encoded parameters. This is necessary for safely passing values with spaces or special characters in query strings.
+-- @param target The target page name.
+-- @param params A table of query parameters {key1 = value1, key2 = value2}.
+-- @return Wikitext for the fullurl invocation.
+function p.createFullUrlWikitext(target, params)
+    if not target or target == "" then
+        return ""
+    end
+    local queryParts = {}
+    if params then
+        -- For consistent ordering, sort keys
+        local keys = {}
+        for k in pairs(params) do
+            table.insert(keys, k)
+        end
+        table.sort(keys)
+        for _, key in ipairs(keys) do
+            local value = params[key]
+            -- URL-encode the value for the query string per MediaWiki best practices
+            -- Use tostring() to gracefully handle non-string values
+            local encodedValue = mw.uri.encode(tostring(value), 'QUERY')
+            table.insert(queryParts, string.format('%s=%s', key, encodedValue))
+        end
+    end
+    local queryString = table.concat(queryParts, '&')
+    if queryString ~= "" then
+        return string.format('{{fullurl:%s|%s}}', target, queryString)
+    else
+        return string.format('{{fullurl:%s}}', target)
+    end
 end