Is there any reason to set the default reverse relationship name in the current format?

[김정훈]

Hi,

Django's default reverse relationship name is a model name followed by a _set suffix. In terms of readability, depending on the type of relationship used, I think it would be good to make the default reverse relationship name in the singular or plural form of the model name.

Is there any reason to set the default reverse relationship name in the current format?

Regards,

Jeonghun Kim

[Adam Johnson]

Ruby on Rails uses "correct" plural forms in code. But in order to do this it contains a special library to pluralize words correctly, e.g. octopus -> octopuses. And naturally that strategy requires per-language and per-word knowledge, and can go wrong when trying to use non-english words.

Rather than use such "magic", Django takes a simple, pragmatic, predictable approach of just appending "_set". Similarly Meta.verbose_name_plural simply appends an "s". If these behaviours aren't suitable for you, you're free to override them for your project.

You can use "s" instead of "_set" for all your foreign keys with the interpolation feature of ForeignKey ( https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.ForeignKey.related_name ) plus a partial ( https://adamj.eu/tech/2021/05/05/3-uses-for-functools-partial-in-django/ ) :

from functools import partial
from django.db import models

ForeignKey = partial(models.ForeignKey, related_name="%(class)ss")


class Author(models.Model):
    ...


class Book(models.Model):
    author = ForeignKey(Author, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    ...

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[김정훈]

It helped a lot.

Thank you!

Jeonghun Kim

2021년 8월 9일 월요일 오후 7시 19분 21초 UTC+9에 Adam Johnson님이 작성: