Flect

This is a new inflection engine to replace https://github.com/markbates/inflect designed to be more modular, more readable, and easier to fix issues on than the original.

Flect provides word inflection features such as Singularize and Pluralize for English nouns and text utility features such as Camelize, Capitalize, Humanize, and more.

Due to the flexibly-complex nature of English noun inflection, it is almost impossible to cover all exceptions (such as identical/irregular plural). With this reason along with the main purpose of Flect, which is to make it easy to develop web application in Go, Flect has limitations with its own rules.

• It covers regular rule (adding -s or -es and of the word)
• It covers well-known irregular rules (such as -is to -es, -f to -ves, etc)
  • https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_irregular_nouns#Rules
• It covers well-known irregular words (such as children, men, etc)
• If a word can be countable and uncountable like milk or time, it will be treated as countable.
• If a word has more than one plural forms, which means it has at least one irregular plural, we tried to find most popular one. (The selected plural could be odd to you, please feel free to open an issue with back data)
  • For example, we selected "stadiums" over "stadia", "dwarfs" over "dwarves"
  • One or combination of en.wiktionary.org, britannica.com, and trends.google.com are used to check the recent usage trends.
• However, we cannot cover all cases and some of our cases could not fit with your situation. You can override the default with functions such as InsertPlural(), InsertSingular(), or LoadInfrections().
• If you have a json file named inflections.json in your application root, the file will be automatically loaded as your custom inflection dictionary.

Installation

$ go get github.com/gobuffalo/flect

Packages

github.com/gobuffalo/flect

The github.com/gobuffalo/flect package contains "basic" inflection tools, like pluralization, singularization, etc...

The Ident Type

In addition to helpful methods that take in a string and return a string, there is an Ident type that can be used to create new, custom, inflection rules.

The Ident type contains two fields.

• Original - This is the original string that was used to create the Ident
• Parts - This is a []string that represents all of the "parts" of the string, that have been split apart, making the segments easier to work with

Examples of creating new inflection rules using Ident can be found in the github.com/gobuffalo/flect/name package.

github.com/gobuffalo/flect/name

The github.com/gobuffalo/flect/name package contains more "business" inflection rules like creating proper names, table names, etc...