def inline_names(entity: EntityProxy, related: EntityProxy) -> None:
"""Attempt to solve a weird UI problem. Imagine we are showing a list of
payments between a sender and a beneficiary to a user. They may now conduct
a search for a term present in the sender or recipient name, but there will
be no result, because the name is only indexed with the parties, but not in
the payment. This is part of a partial work-around to that.
This is really bad in theory, but really useful in practice. Shoot me.
"""
prop = entity.schema.get("namesMentioned")
if prop is not None:
entity.add(prop, related.get_type_values(registry.name))
def name_entity(entity: EntityProxy) -> EntityProxy:
"""If an entity has multiple names, pick the most central one
and set all the others as aliases. This is awkward given that
names are not special and may not always be the caption."""
if entity.schema.is_a("Thing"):
names = entity.get("name")
if len(names) > 1:
name = registry.name.pick(names)
if name in names:
names.remove(name)
entity.set("name", name)
entity.add("alias", names)
return entity