Plural query name about opencrud HOT 5 OPEN

@schickling Do you have any thoughts about this? It seems the problem has been raised with Prisma (prisma/prisma1#1772) as well.

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I had that question as well but after discussing it with a couple people I think the conclusion was that this case is rare enough that we can keep the "+s" convention. Also, people can always find their own workaround, like naming the type NewsArticle instead of just News for example.

I think adding "all" in the rare cases where the problem does happen is a good solution though.

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We should add this to the specs though. I found a list (not sure it's exhaustive) with all the words which have no plural and where we should use the all prefix instead.

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That list is far from exhaustive too. Another example is equipment.

The way we've dealt with it is to throw a helpful error at the application level during startup when there's a plural/singular conflict. Forces the application developer to work around it by renaming.

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Previously I've referenced the list used by Mongoose. In addition to the above, it includes:

cooperation, deer, digestion, energy, excretion, expertise, fish, health, justice, labour, machinery, media, moose, paper, pollution, rain, rice, series, sewage, sheep, species, status

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