On database page, have the database name without the -HASH suffix

[fgregg]

On database tables, it would good to have the database name not have a -HASH prefix.

[fgregg]

the best design for how to accommodate this is not obvious.

it seems like one wouldn't want to handle this is an a custom template for this plugin

the alternative would be for all database objects to have an attribute like "display_name" and have that be used in upstream templates. but, that might be adding to much cruft if the only use case is this one plugin.

[simonw]

That title in the template looks like this:

https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/764738dfcb16cd98b0987d443f59d5baa9d3c332/datasette/templates/database.html#L23

    <h1>{{ metadata.title or database }}{% if private %} 🔒{% endif %}</h1>

So one option would be for this plugin to use the get_metadata hook at https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/plugin_hooks.html#get-metadata-datasette-key-database-table to customize that value - but only if it's not already customized by the metadata.json for the instance.

Worth investigating as an option.