Extension:External Data/Inline
As of version 3.2, you can use External Data to get data from a structured piece of text (in a format like CSV, JSON, XML, etc.) contained directly within the relevant parser function or Lua function.
The recommended way to do this is to use one of the display functions (#external_value, #for_external_table, etc.), passing in the necessary parameters for the data retrieval. You can also retrieve inline data by calling either #get_inline_data or #get_external_data.
For any of these parser functions, you can also call its corresponding Lua function.
Usage
editThe following examples show inline data being retrieved via #get_inline_text and #get_external_data. To retrieve it instead using one of the display functions like #external_value, you should pass in the main text via the "text=" parameter, then add any other of the other necessary parameters to the same call.
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{{#get_inline_data: text = {
"title": "JSON",
"description": "An example of JSON"
}
| format = json with jsonpath
| data = title = $.title, description = $.description
}}
* Title: {{#external_value:title}}.
* Description: {{#external_value:description}}.
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{{#get_external_data: text =
title,description
CSV,An example of comma-separated values
}}
* Format: {{#external_value:__format}}
* Title: {{#external_value:title}}.
* Description: {{#external_value:description}}.
|
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{{#get_inline_data:
title: YAML
description: An example of YAML
}}
* Title: {{#external_value:title}}.
* Description: {{#external_value:description}}.
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