Module:Diff

This module is rated as ready for general use. It has reached a mature form and is thought to be relatively bug-free and ready for use wherever appropriate. It is ready to mention on help pages and other Wikipedia resources as an option for new users to learn. To reduce server load and bad output, it should be improved by sandbox testing rather than repeated trial-and-error editing.

Provides functions for diffing text.

Usage

Ciaran Hope (born 4 August 1974) is an Irish composer of orchestral, choral, and film music.

Difference in words

{{TextDiff|Ciaran Hope (born 4 August 1974) is an Irish composer of orchestral, choral, and film music.|Ciaran Hope (was given birth to on 20 August last year) is an Irish composter of orchestral, oral, and film music dance moves.}}

Result:

Difference in characters

{{StringDiff|Ciaran Hope (born 4 August 1974) is an Irish composer of orchestral, choral, and film music.|Ciaran Hope (was given birth to on 20 August last year) is an Irish composter of orchestral, oral, and film music dance moves.}}

Result:

Example with invoke

{{#invoke:Diff|main|[[Ciaran Hope]] (born 4 August 1974) is an Irish composer of orchestral, choral, and film music.|[[Ciaran Hope]] (was given birth to on 20 August last year) is an Irish composter of orchestral, oral, and film music dance moves.}}

Result:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Provides functions for diffing text.
--
-- (c) 2007, 2008  Yuri Takhteyev (yuri@freewisdom.org)
-- (c) 2007 Hisham Muhammad
-- Adapted to MediaWiki LUA: [[User:Ebraminio]] <ebrahim -at- gnu.org>
--
-- License: MIT/X, see http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/en/License
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

SKIP_SEPARATOR = true  -- a constant

IN   = "in"; OUT  = "out"; SAME = "same"  -- token statuses

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Split a string into tokens.  (Adapted from Gavin Kistner's split on
-- http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin.
--
-- @param text           A string to be split.
-- @param separator      [optional] the separator pattern (defaults to any
--                       white space - %s+).
-- @param skip_separator [optional] don't include the sepator in the results.     
-- @return               A list of tokens.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
function split(text, separator, skip_separator)
   separator = separator or "%s+"
   local parts = {}  
   local start = 1
   local split_start, split_end = mw.ustring.find(text, separator, start)
   while split_start do
      table.insert(parts, mw.ustring.sub(text, start, split_start-1))
      if not skip_separator then
         table.insert(parts, mw.ustring.sub(text, split_start, split_end))
      end
      start = split_end + 1
      split_start, split_end = mw.ustring.find(text, separator, start)
   end
   if mw.ustring.sub(text, start) ~= "" then
      table.insert(parts, mw.ustring.sub(text, start))
   end
   return parts
end


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Derives the longest common subsequence of two strings.  This is a faster
-- implementation than one provided by stdlib.  Submitted by Hisham Muhammad. 
-- The algorithm was taken from:
-- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algorithm_implementation/Strings/Longest_common_subsequence
--
-- @param t1             the first string.
-- @param t2             the second string.
-- @return               the least common subsequence as a matrix.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
function quick_LCS(t1, t2)
   local m = #t1
   local n = #t2

   -- Build matrix on demand
   local C = {}
   local setmetatable = setmetatable
   local mt_tbl = {
      __index = function(t, k)
         t[k] = 0
         return 0
      end
   }
   local mt_C = {
      __index = function(t, k)
         local tbl = {}
         setmetatable(tbl, mt_tbl)
         t[k] = tbl
         return tbl
      end
   }
   setmetatable(C, mt_C)
   local max = math.max
   for i = 1, m+1 do
      local ci1 = C[i+1]
      local ci = C[i]
      for j = 1, n+1 do
         if t1[i-1] == t2[j-1] then
            ci1[j+1] = ci[j] + 1
         else
            ci1[j+1] = max(ci1[j], ci[j+1])
         end
      end
   end
   return C
end



-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Formats an inline diff as HTML, with <ins> and <del> tags.
-- 
-- @param tokens         a table of {token, status} pairs.
-- @return               an HTML string.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
function format_as_html(tokens)
   local diff_buffer = ""
   local token, status
   for i, token_record in ipairs(tokens) do
      token = mw.text.nowiki(token_record[1])
      status = token_record[2]
      if status == "in" then
         diff_buffer = diff_buffer..'<ins>'..token..'</ins>'
      elseif status == "out" then
         diff_buffer = diff_buffer..'<del>'..token..'</del>'
      else 
         diff_buffer = diff_buffer..token
      end
   end
   return diff_buffer
end

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Returns a diff of two strings as a list of pairs, where the first value
-- represents a token and the second the token's status ("same", "in", "out").
--
-- @param old             The "old" text string
-- @param new             The "new" text string
-- @param separator      [optional] the separator pattern (defaults ot any
--                       white space).
-- @return               A list of annotated tokens.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
function diff(old, new, separator)
   assert(old); assert(new)
   new = split(new, separator); old = split(old, separator)

   -- First, compare the beginnings and ends of strings to remove the common
   -- prefix and suffix.  Chances are, there is only a small number of tokens
   -- in the middle that differ, in which case  we can save ourselves a lot
   -- in terms of LCS computation.
   local prefix = "" -- common text in the beginning
   local suffix = "" -- common text in the end
   while old[1] and old[1] == new[1] do
      local token = table.remove(old, 1)
      table.remove(new, 1)
      prefix = prefix..token
   end
   while old[#old] and old[#old] == new[#new] do
      local token = table.remove(old)
      table.remove(new)
      suffix = token..suffix
   end

   -- Setup a table that will store the diff (an upvalue for get_diff). We'll
   -- store it in the reverse order to allow for tail calls.  We'll also keep
   -- in this table functions to handle different events.
   local rev_diff = {
      put  = function(self, token, type) table.insert(self, {token,type}) end,
      ins  = function(self, token) self:put(token, IN) end,
      del  = function(self, token) self:put(token, OUT) end,
      same = function(self, token) if token then self:put(token, SAME) end end,
   }

   -- Put the suffix as the first token (we are storing the diff in the
   -- reverse order)

   rev_diff:same(suffix)

   -- Define a function that will scan the LCS matrix backwards and build the
   -- diff output recursively.
   local function get_diff(C, old, new, i, j)
      local old_i = old[i]
      local new_j = new[j]
      if i >= 1 and j >= 1 and old_i == new_j then
         rev_diff:same(old_i)
         return get_diff(C, old, new, i-1, j-1)
      else
         local Cij1 = C[i][j-1]
         local Ci1j = C[i-1][j]
         if j >= 1 and (i == 0 or Cij1 >= Ci1j) then
            rev_diff:ins(new_j)
            return get_diff(C, old, new, i, j-1)
         elseif i >= 1 and (j == 0 or Cij1 < Ci1j) then
            rev_diff:del(old_i)
            return get_diff(C, old, new, i-1, j)
         end
      end
   end
   -- Then call it.
   get_diff(quick_LCS(old, new), old, new, #old + 1, #new + 1)

   -- Put the prefix in at the end
   rev_diff:same(prefix)

   -- Reverse the diff.
   local diff = {}

   for i = #rev_diff, 1, -1 do
      table.insert(diff, rev_diff[i])
   end
   diff.to_html = format_as_html
   return diff
end

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Wiki diff style, currently just for a line
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
function wikiDiff(old, new, separator)
  local tokens = diff(old, new, separator)
  local root = mw.html.create('')

  local token, status

  local plusMinusStyle = 'width: 2%; padding: 0.25em; font-weight: bold;' ..
    'font-size: 1.25em; text-align: end;'
  local tdDivStyle = 'word-wrap: break-word; direction: ltr;'

  local tdSharedStyle = 'width: 48%; border-style: solid; border-radius: 0.33em; ' ..
    'padding: 0.33em 0.5em; font-size: 88%; white-space: pre-wrap; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; ' ..
    '-webkit-border-end-width: 1px; -webkit-border-start-width: 4px; ' ..
    '-moz-border-end-width: 1px; -moz-border-start-width: 4px;' -- these overrides default border-width for browsers supports them, needed for RTL UI on commons
  local insDelSharedStyle = 'padding: 0.25em 0; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: initial;'


  local tr = root:tag('table'):addClass('diff'):css('width', '100%'):tag('tr')

  tr:tag('td')
    :addClass('diff-marker')
    :cssText(plusMinusStyle)
    :wikitext('−')

  local deleted = tr
    :tag('td')
      :cssText('border-color: #ffe49c; ' .. tdSharedStyle)
      :addClass('diff-deletedline')
      :tag('div')
        :cssText(tdDivStyle)

  for i, token_record in ipairs(tokens) do
    token = mw.text.nowiki(token_record[1])
    status = token_record[2]
    if status == OUT then
      deleted
        :tag('del')
          :cssText('background: #feeec8; ' .. insDelSharedStyle)
          :addClass('diffchange')
          :addClass('diffchange-inline')
          :wikitext(token)
    elseif status == SAME then
      deleted:wikitext(token)
    end
  end

  tr:tag('td')
    :cssText(plusMinusStyle)
    :wikitext('+')

  local inserted = tr
    :tag('td')
      :cssText('border-color: #a3d3ff; ' .. tdSharedStyle)
      :addClass('diff-addedline')
      :tag('div')
        :cssText(tdDivStyle)

  for i, token_record in ipairs(tokens) do
    token = mw.text.nowiki(token_record[1])
    status = token_record[2]
    if status == IN then
      inserted
        :tag('ins')
          :cssText('background: #d8ecff; ' .. insDelSharedStyle)
          :addClass('diffchange')
          :addClass('diffchange-inline')
          :wikitext(token)
    elseif status == SAME then
      inserted:wikitext(token)
    end
  end

  return tostring(root)
end

function main(frame)
  return wikiDiff(mw.text.unstrip(mw.text.decode(frame.args[1])), mw.text.decode(mw.text.unstrip(frame.args[2])), frame.args[3] or '[%s%.:-]+')
end

return {
  diff = diff,
  wikiDiff = wikiDiff,
  main = main
}

Module:Diff

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