Update messed up table name recognition

[dlogvin]

• Laravel Version: 7.14.0
• PHP Version: 7.2.5
• Database Driver & Version: mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.25

Description:

Things first, first. My webapp worked GREAT before updating.

The conflicting piece of code?
$results = Subject::with(['user'])->where('user_id', $user_id)->withCount('homeworks');

Why is laravel now asking for a table called homework when I'm literally trying to pull one called homeworks?

Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'homewrk.homework'` (homewrk is the database name).

Steps To Reproduce:

Create a table named in plural (idk, something like products), create a relationship to the user, and then inside the product, make another table called (again) something in plural, such as characteristics. Then try to show the products and the number of characteristics they have though the line of code I gave:

$results = Product::with(['user'])->where('user_id', $user_id)->withCount('characteristics');

It used to work, now it does not. I cannot even do $subject->homeworks->count() either.

[dlogvin]

adding public $table = "homeworks"; to the model makes it work. But why I didn't have to put that before? it worked pretty well.

[rimace]

Actually, homework is uncountable and thus there is no "homeworks". Nevertheless if it was "fixed" to not produce a pluralized form it would be a breakage.
And why doesnt $subject->homeworks->count() work?
This completely depends on your implementation of the relation method. Can you post how you implemented Subject::homeworks()?

[driesvints]

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