Supply .Meta.verbose_name_plural for all models

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Austin - Network Automation Engineer

I want …

all the models present in Nautobot to have a verbose_name_plural field under Meta.

So that …

I can use this field to build URLs when I only have the model name in singular, needed for example when syncing relationship associations with SSoT.

I know this is done when…

There is a verbose_name_plural field under the Meta class for all of the models.

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Created a year ago
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bryanculvercommented, Sep 9, 2022

Already available via Django _meta API and documented as such.

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bryanculvercommented, Sep 9, 2022

And this would be an API that we can safely consume, although it is prefixed with an underscore?

Yes, although it does feel weird I agree: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/models/meta/ & https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/i18n/translation/#pluralization

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