[Catalyst] strange generated DBIC accessor name

[J. Shirley]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:29 AM,  <th at dix.cz> wrote:
>>> I'm going to be crazzy about one generated accessor name:
>>>
>>> __PACKAGE__->has_many(
>>>   "company_people",         # I expected to be "company_persons"
>>>   "Jf::Schema::Result::CompanyPerson",
>>>   { "foreign.role" => "self.id" },
>>> );
>>>
>>> I have no "people" pattern in my database. Did I miss something?
>>
>> People is the correct plural of person.  Apparently Catalyst uses
>> something fairly clever to generate the plurals for relationship names.
>
> Yes, that makes sense.
>
> I changed the name from "person" to persona to avoid that.
> And than I got plural "personae" :-)
>
> This is apparently linguistically perfect, but I rather prefer to have
> consistent (ugly) naming..
>
> Does anybody knows how invoke the *_create script to avoid that?
>
>
> thanx,
> Tomas
>
>
>> Regards,
>> Denny
>>
>>
>
>

This discussion really belongs on the DBIx::Class mailing list, not on
the Catalyst mailing list.
http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class


As Frazer posted above, yes, you can override this:
http://search.cpan.org/~rkitover/DBIx-Class-Schema-Loader-0.05003/lib/DBIx/Class/Schema/Loader/Base.pm#inflect_plural

-J