I am confused about the rules that are used. And a little bit about why they are used.
Case in point (1.30.-rc1):
$ mix phx.gen.json Odoo CustDB custdbs uuid:string ip:string size:integer
(At first I used Backend (the name of my app) instead of Odoo. But this resulted in all types of errors because an alias Backend.Backend was generated, which caused a mess.)
But anyway. This commandline (I need to specifiy single and plural, which is a good thing compared to Laravel with creates its own plurals like people for person) resulted in the following names being generated in my code:
defmodule Backend.Web. CustDBController
def index(conn, _params) do
custdbs = Odoo.list_custdbs()
render(conn, "index.json", custdbs: custdbs)
end
Note the variable name custdbs. Ok, next function:
def create(conn, %{"cust_db" => cust_db_params}) do
with {:ok, %CustDB{} = cust_db} <- Odoo.create_cust_db(cust_db_params) do
conn
|> put_status(:created)
|> put_resp_header("location", cust_db_path(conn, :show, cust_db))
|> render("show.json", cust_db: cust_db)
end
end
Now suddenly underscores are used.
There is a file generated for the schema, with the name cust_db.ex
Unfortunately the convention with APIs is to use plurals (where in SQL databases it’s to use singulars for table names), so the process recommends adding /custdbs
So I have a few questions:
- where does the underscore come from, and what are the heuristics to add it?
- can I auto-generate singulars for my REST API because I just hate the plurals?
Thanks.
