A couple of things:

   1. This seems a good moment to mention that my
   https://github.com/wlupton/pandoc-lua-logging has moved to
   https://github.com/pandoc-ext/logging (it's redirected automatically)

   2. Its logging.lua module contains this wrapper around
   pandoc.utils.type() (sorry for the rather non-obvious ({Inline=1,
   Block=1})[typ] idiom ... I no longer think that this is a particularly
   good idea!)

logging.type = function(value)
    -- this can return 'Inlines', 'Blocks', 'Inline', 'Block' etc., or
    -- anything that built-in type() can return, namely 'nil', 'number',
    -- 'string', 'boolean', 'table', 'function', 'thread', or 'userdata'
    local typ = pandoc.utils.type(value)

    -- it seems that it can also return strings like 'pandoc Row'; replace
    -- spaces with periods
    -- XXX I'm not sure that this is done consistently, e.g. I don't think
    --     it's done for pandoc.Attr or pandoc.List?
    typ = typ:gsub(' ', '.')

    -- map Inline and Block to the tag name
    -- XXX I guess it's intentional that it doesn't already do this?
    return ({Inline=1, Block=1})[typ] and value.tag or typ
end

On Sat, 13 May 2023 at 10:00, ThomasH <therch-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Great, thanks.
>
> On Friday, May 12, 2023 at 7:41:50 PM UTC+2 Albert Krewinkel wrote:
>
>>
>> ThomasH <the...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>
>> > I want to detect the types of the inline elements of a paragraph. I
>> > understand there is pandoc.utils.type() that basically does that, but
>> > when I run
>> >
>> > function Para(para)
>> >     for i = 1,#para.content,1 do
>> >         print(tostring(pandoc.utils.type(para.content[i])))
>> >     end
>> > end
>> >
>> > all that is printed is "Inline" for all elements, not specific types
>> > like Str, Span, Link or Image. How can I get at the specific types?
>>
>> The trick here is that we are using Haskell terminology: Inline is a
>> *type*, and Str, Span, Link, etc. are *constructors* for this type. In
>> Lua (and JSON) contexts, the property that identifies the name of the
>> constructor of a value is called a "tag". Try this:
>>
>> ``` lua
>> function Para(para)
>> for i = 1,#para.content do
>> print(para.content[i].tag))
>> end
>> end
>> ```
>>
>> The `.t` property is an alias for `.tag` and can be used as well.
>>
>> I have plans to change the behavior of `pandoc.utils.type` and to make
>> the function return two results. The first result would stay as-is, with
>> the second result containing the constructor name. But I need to run
>> more tests to ensure that this won't lead to performance degradation.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Albert Krewinkel
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>>
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