- The title of a schema node now defaults to a titleization of the

``name``.  Underscores in the ``name`` are replaced with empty
  strings and the first letter of every resulting word is capitalized.
  Previously the ``name`` was not split on underscores, and the
  entirety of the ``name`` was capitalized.

CHANGES.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
+Next release
+------------
+
+- The title of a schema node now defaults to a titleization of the
+  ``name``.  Underscores in the ``name`` are replaced with empty
+  strings and the first letter of every resulting word is capitalized.
+  Previously the ``name`` was not split on underscores, and the
+  entirety of the ``name`` was capitalized.
+
 0.7.2 (2010/08/30)
 ------------------
 

colander/__init__.py

@@ -1150,9 +1150,10 @@ class SchemaNode(object):
       an object that implements the
       :class:`colander.interfaces.Validator` interface.
 
-    - ``title``: The title of this node.  Defaults to a captialization
-      of the ``name``.  The title is used by higher-level systems (not
-      by Colander itself).
+    - ``title``: The title of this node.  Defaults to a titleization
+      of the ``name`` (underscores replaced with empty strings and the
+      first letter of every resulting word capitalized).  The title is
+      used by higher-level systems (not by Colander itself).
 
     - ``description``: The description for this node.  Defaults to
       ``''`` (the empty string).  The description is used by
@@ -1176,7 +1177,7 @@ class SchemaNode(object):
         self.default = kw.pop('default', null)
         self.missing = kw.pop('missing', _marker)
         self.name = kw.pop('name', '')
-        self.title = kw.pop('title', self.name.capitalize())
+        self.title = kw.pop('title', self.name.replace('_', ' ').title())
         self.description = kw.pop('description', '')
         self.widget = kw.pop('widget', None)
         if kw:
@@ -1279,7 +1280,7 @@ class _SchemaMeta(type):
             if isinstance(value, SchemaNode):
                 value.name = name
                 if not value.title:
-                    value.title = name.capitalize()
+                    value.title = name.replace('_', ' ').title()
                 nodes.append((value._order, value))
         cls.__schema_nodes__ = nodes
         # Combine all attrs from this class and its subclasses.

colander/tests.py

@@ -1271,15 +1271,15 @@ class TestSchemaNode(unittest.TestCase):
         self.failUnless(hasattr(node, '_order'))
 
     def test_ctor_no_title(self):
-        node = self._makeOne(None, 0, validator=1, default=2, name='name',
+        node = self._makeOne(None, 0, validator=1, default=2, name='name_a',
                              missing='missing')
         self.assertEqual(node.typ, None)
         self.assertEqual(node.children, [0])
         self.assertEqual(node.validator, 1)
         self.assertEqual(node.default, 2)
         self.assertEqual(node.missing, 'missing')
-        self.assertEqual(node.name, 'name')
-        self.assertEqual(node.title, 'Name')
+        self.assertEqual(node.name, 'name_a')
+        self.assertEqual(node.title, 'Name A')
 
     def test_ctor_with_title(self):
         node = self._makeOne(None, 0, validator=1, default=2, name='name',
@@ -1434,7 +1434,7 @@ class TestSchema(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_it(self):
         import colander
         class MySchema(colander.Schema):
-            thing = colander.SchemaNode(colander.String())
+            thing_a = colander.SchemaNode(colander.String())
             thing2 = colander.SchemaNode(colander.String(), title='bar')
         node = MySchema(default='abc')
         self.failUnless(hasattr(node, '_order'))
@@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@ class TestSchema(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(node.__class__, colander.SchemaNode)
         self.assertEqual(node.typ.__class__, colander.Mapping)
         self.assertEqual(node.children[0].typ.__class__, colander.String) 
-        self.assertEqual(node.children[0].title, 'Thing')
+        self.assertEqual(node.children[0].title, 'Thing A')
         self.assertEqual(node.children[1].title, 'bar')
 
 class TestSequenceSchema(unittest.TestCase):