Merge pull request #196 from reliese/override-model-names

Provide facility to manually override generated model names

Author: CristianLlanos

config/models.php

@@ -321,6 +321,26 @@
 
         'lower_table_name_first' => false,
 
+        /*
+        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+        | Model Names
+        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+        |
+        | By default the generator will create models with names that match your tables.
+        | However, if you wish to manually override the naming, you can specify a mapping
+        | here between table and model names.
+        |
+        | Example:
+        |   A table called 'billing_invoices' will generate a model called `BillingInvoice`,
+        |   but you'd prefer it to generate a model called 'Invoice'. Therefore, you'd add
+        |   the following array key and value:
+        |     'billing_invoices' => 'Invoice',
+        */
+
+        'model_names' => [
+
+        ],
+
         /*
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
         | Relation Name Strategy

src/Coders/Model/Model.php

@@ -521,6 +521,13 @@ public function getQualifiedUserClassName()
      */
     public function getClassName()
     {
+        // Model names can be manually overridden by users in the config file.
+        // If a config entry exists for this table, use that name, rather than generating one.
+        $overriddenName = $this->config('model_names.' . $this->getTable());
+        if ($overriddenName) {
+            return $overriddenName;
+        }
+
         if ($this->shouldLowerCaseTableName()) {
             return Str::studly(Str::lower($this->getRecordName()));
         }