Automatically generate humanized label based on model attribute name about angular-form-for

[bvaughn]

Hey hey. Interesting suggestion! Thanks for bringing it up. :) Help me think through some of the potential edge-cases.

First, label is already optional (to allow a bit of flexibility in form layout, without the necessity of custom field templates). The part that would be new for this feature would be for formFor to guess at the label.

So...potential gotchas:
* Camel-casing is quite popular so I'd have to handle it. This could be tricky for variables with multiple uppercase letters (ex. userPIN). I could still handle that though with a regex...but I wonder if there are any words likely to be used as variables with uppercase letters within them. (I'm just musing.)
* Variable names tend to be more...functional than presentational. I might name variables billingAddress1 and billingAddress2 but I'd likely want to group them as "Billing Address:" and then 2 inputs with placeholders for "Address" and "Address (continued)". Similar password is often broken out into 2 fields on a form, one for confirmation. I'm not immediately sure how I'd handle these cases?

What else?

[epicbagel]

I think in any of the edge cases, you would probably just override the label (for example, in both the userPIN and password confirmation fields).

Hiding the label could then perhaps be explicit, rather than inferred through a lack of data-label? e.g. data-hide-label="true"?

https://github.com/epeli/underscore.string already have some pieces to help with string manipulation, i often find useful.

[bvaughn]

Hm! I think I'd want to control this auto-label default behavior via a global configuration in the FormForConfiguration service. That way people can opt in or out more explicitly.

I recently removed formFor's Lodash dependency (by request) so I don't want to re-add it (or Underscore) just for string manipulation. I'd probably have to roll this myself.

[bbobrian]

http://angular-ui.github.io/ui-utils/#/inflector works pretty well.

[bvaughn]

+1 for the tip about Inflector @bbobrian

[bvaughn]

Added via the above commit. To enable this feature, use FormForConfiguration.enableAutoLabels(). I'll update the documentation shortly.

[bvaughn]

This will go out in the next release, probably sometime tomorrow.

[bvaughn]

FYI 1.1.10 has been released.