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DCR
DCR

Reputation: 15665

is this a Django bug?

I created a project and within the project an app call myusers. I then created a model with the class name AllUsers. I then populated the model with data from faker.

When I go to 127.0.0.1/admin under authorization I have groups and users. Under myusers I have ‘All userss’ which is a link to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/myusers/allusers/

so, I’m just wondering if this is a minor bug. Shouldn’t it say ‘AllUsers’ and not ‘All userss’? Or did I corrupt something along the way?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 100

Answers (2)

pfcodes
pfcodes

Reputation: 1086

You should not create a model that represents a set of entities. A model should represent a single entity. Since a model should only represent a single entity, Django adds an "s" to the end in the admin to pluralize it (i.e, a model named "Car" will be "Cars" in the admin).

Of course you can change the verbose_plural_name (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/models/options/#verbose-name-plural), but the best way forward is to not continue using this technique to represent all users at all.

To represent all users you should be using a QuerySet.

Upvotes: 2

willeM_ Van Onsem
willeM_ Van Onsem

Reputation: 476659

No, a model normally has a singular name, so AllUser, not AllUsers.

Django will, based on the name add a suffix …s for the plural. Indeed, for a model you can check the verbose name with:

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> User.Meta.verbose_name_plural
'users'

For your model you can specify the singluar and plural name yourself with:

class AllUsers(models.Model):
    # …
    class Meta:
        verbose_name = 'all user'
        verbose_name_plural = 'all users'

But nevertheless, it is better to give the class a singular name. Especially since other parts, like the default for related_name=… [Django-doc] is modelname_set, so for a ForeignKey of your AllUser model, that would look like allusers_set, which does not look very pleasant.

Upvotes: 6

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