On Aug 10, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Michael Gentry wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org
> > wrote:
>> +1 for the pluggable naming engine, and making the first alternative
>> implementation to work like you described, i.e.:
>>
>> * drop the "to" from to-one relatinship names
>> * replace "Array" with "s" for to-many.
>> * use FK as a basis for to-one relationship name
>
>
> For a to-many, it isn't as simple as adding an "s" at the end for a
> to-many. At least not in English. For example, if you have a to-man
> to an Address object, you probably want "getAddresses" and not
> "getAddresss" as the method name.
Of course. Not sure how far we can go with an automated engine here. I
guess some of naming cleanup may still have to be left to the users.
But we can build a basic algorithm for 95% of cases. E.g. check for
the ending "s" and change the suffix. Are there amy formal English
language rules that would help us in building the algorithm?
Andrus
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