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FAM_Maurice
FAM_Maurice

Reputation: 423

How do i turn off django's plural notation in the admin page

I have some tables that are presented as inlines of another class. I have altered the default title of these inline representations by adding an inner class to the respective tables.

class Meta: verbose_name = 'Binnengekomen punten'

I have only the verbose_name defined but it still adds an s to all the names. So 'Binnengekomen punten' is displayed as 'Binnengekomen puntens' What i could do is define the plural of verbose_name verbose_name_plural the same as verbose_name. But is there a way to simply turn off the plural notation? I'd love to know thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 749

Answers (3)

willeM_ Van Onsem
willeM_ Van Onsem

Reputation: 477513

Adding a suffix is hardcoded, we can see this in the source code:

            if self.verbose_name_plural is None:
                self.verbose_name_plural = format_lazy('{}s', self.verbose_name)

It does not make much sense to write the verbose_name as 'binnengekomen punten' (incoming points), since that is plural and a verbose_name is supposed to be singular. You can however make a decorator that for example automatically defines the plural by adding 'en' to the verbose_name, like:

def add_plural(cls, suffix='en'):
    if not hasattr(cls, 'verbose_name_plural'):
        try:
            cls.verbose_name_plural = cls.verbose_name + suffix
        except AttributeError:
            pass
    return cls

We can then use the decorator like:

class IncomingPoint(models.Model):
    # ...
    @add_plural
    class Meta:
        verbose_name = 'Binnengekomen punt'

EDIT: You can turn of capitalization, by wrapping the items in a subclass of string, as is shown is in this ticket #18129:

class NoCap(str):
    def upper(self):
        return self
    def __getitem__(self, key):
        return self.__class__(super().__getitem__(key))

We can then wrap the verbose_name and verbose_name_plural into this:

def case_invariant_meta(cls, suffix='en'):
    try:
        cls.verbose_name = NoCap(cls.verbose_name)
    except AttributeError:
        pass
    try:
        cls.verbose_name_plural = NoCap(cls.verbose_name_plural)
    except AttributeError:
        pass
    return cls

We can then annotate the Meta class:

class IncomingPoint(models.Model):
    # ...
    @case_invariant_meta
    @add_plural
    class Meta:
        verbose_name = 'Binnengekomen punt'

Upvotes: 2

Michal Dobrzycki
Michal Dobrzycki

Reputation: 168

according to Django docs there isn't method to turn off plural notation.

If verbose_name_plural isn't given Django uses verbose_name + 's'

Upvotes: 2

Batman
Batman

Reputation: 8947

I’m sure that it’s possible, but can guarantee you that it would not be worth the effort. Just set the verbose_plural_name.

Upvotes: 1

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