dotnet core 2.0 pluralize when scaffolding?

Question

Setting my a .net core 2.x class library with ef core 2. Have generated the scaffolding for the entities from my db schema. However, I forgot to even check whether there as an option to pluralize the entity names. I noticed this when I pulled over one my methods from a class library that uses EF 6.1 and the entities are pluralized. Is there an option for this and to simply regenerate my entities as pluralized?

Answer 1

1. Write a class that implements the Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.IPluralizer interface. You can write your own, or use a NuGet package such as Inflector

   public class Pluralizer : IPluralizer
   {
       public string Pluralize(string name)
       {
           return Inflector.Inflector.Pluralize(name) ?? name;
       }
   
       public string Singularize(string name)
       {
           return Inflector.Inflector.Singularize(name) ?? name;
       }
   }
   

2. Write a class that implements the Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.IDesignTimeServices interface to register your IPluralizer implementation in your entity framework project.

   public class DesignTimeServices : IDesignTimeServices
   {
       public void ConfigureDesignTimeServices(IServiceCollection services)
       {
           services.AddSingleton<IPluralizer, Pluralizer>();
       }
   }
   

3. Run (or rerun) your Scaffold-DbContext command from the package manager console as usual. If you want it to overwrite the previously generated code, you need the -force option.