Example needed for controlling the automatic pluralisation of raven entity name

[Bevermans]

I have some entities for which the plural form of a raven collection
is not correct (for example Company versus Companies).

Now I found a hint that I have to do something with the
Conventions.FindTypeTagName but I do not know how to do this.

Thanks for any help!

[Chris]

The default FindTypeTagName convention uses the Raven.Util.Inflector class to pluralize type names. To alter this behavior, try something like this:

_documentStore = new DocumentStore { Url = "http://localhost:8080/" };
_documentStore.Conventions.FindTypeTagName = t =>
{
    if (t == typeof(string)) return "MyCustomCollectionName";
    return Raven.Client.Util.Inflector.Pluralize(t.Name);
};

_documentStore.Initialize();

[Chris]

Er... change typeof(string) to typeof(MyClass) where MyClass is the type for which you want to alter the collection name.

[Daniel Cazzulino]

or you can directly use the System.Data.Entity.Design.PluralizationServices.PluralizationService :)

(from EF, System.Data.Entity.Design)

/kzu

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[Ayende Rahien]

Hm,

Does that support i18n?

[Daniel Cazzulino]

yup, you create the service for a given culture. 

in .NET 4.0, however (my en-US install, anyway), it throws for anything but "en"

public static PluralizationService CreateService(CultureInfo culture) { EDesignUtil.CheckArgumentNull<CultureInfo>(culture, "culture"); if (culture.TwoLetterISOLanguageName != "en") { throw new NotImplementedException("We don't support locales other than english yet"); } return new EnglishPluralizationService(); }

from android nexus1

[Bevermans]

Thank you all for the suggestions! I now use Chris suggestion and it
works perfect!

Yours sincerely,

Evert Wiesenekker

[ajay_whiz]

so this means for every model i will have to write code. Is there any
single point configuration whereby it stops pluralizing for whole
application or ravendb itself?

[Ayende Rahien]

I am sorry, what exactly do you want? 

If you want to stop pluralization globably, just use:

conventions.FindTypeTagName = t=>t.Name;

[ajay_whiz]

Thanks, I was looking for such setting in the RavenDB itself. So that
I won't have to write that code.

[Ayende Rahien]

That is in the client API, and that is a single line of code that you can provide when configuring the DocumentStore