[REQ] Allow matching given_name only

[arthurmelton]

Hello, I was wondering if there could be support for matching given_name only.

For example if you do the following:

$ human_name parse "Jane"
$ echo $?
1

This gives an error and does not parse the name at all. I would like if the following output could be produced:

$ human_name parse "Jane"
{"first_initial":"J","given_name":"Jane"}

[djudd]

Can you provide a little more context on the use case?

In particular - are you imagining something smart to decide when a single word should be treated as a given name vs surname? Or maybe a configuration flag?

Also, are you trying to combine this with equality-checking? I'm not sure how to combine this with hashing, which assumes surname, although maybe it's fine to just hash empty surnames all the same (the algorithm is going to have tons of collisions regardless).

[djudd]

I think I'd be open to a PR once some of these questions are answered.

[arthurmelton]

I don't think anything smart has to happen to see if its a first name or last name. I think by default it should just assume first name without any other arguments. I think if the output is expecting a last name, they can just manually convert the given information to last names. As someone who uses the library version of the program (not with rust), having the least amount of arguments is always preferred.

On the equality-checking side, I don't know the nitty gritty side of it, and I assume an empty surname hash should suffice. Maybe you could code it that if the surname is null, to internally replace the given name with the surname?