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"""This module contains the User Model."""

__authors__ = [

  '"Todd Larsen" <tlarsen@google.com>',

  '"Sverre Rabbelier" <sverre@rabbelier.nl>',

  '"Pawel Solyga" <pawel.solyga@gmail.com>',

]

import logging

from google.appengine.ext import db

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy

from soc.models import base

from soc.views.helpers import forms_helpers

class User(base.ModelWithFieldAttributes):

  """A user and associated login credentials, the fundamental identity entity.

  User is a separate Model class from Person because the same login 

  ID may be used to, for example, serve as Contributor in one Program 

  and a Reviewer in another.

  Also, this allows a Person to, in the future, re-associate that 

  Person entity with a different Google Account if necessary.

  A User entity participates in the following relationships implemented 

  as a db.ReferenceProperty elsewhere in another db.Model:

   persons)  a 1:many relationship of Person entities identified by the

     User.  This relation is implemented as the 'persons' back-reference

     Query of the Person model 'user' reference.

  """

  #: A Google Account, which also provides a "private" email address.

  #: This email address is only used in an automated fashion by 

  #: Melange web applications and is not made visible to other users 

  #: of any Melange application.

  id = db.UserProperty(required=True)

  #: Required field storing a nickname; displayed publicly.

  #: Nicknames can be any valid UTF-8 text.

  nick_name = db.StringProperty(required=True,

      verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Nick name'))

  #: Required field storing linkname used in URLs to identify user.

  #: Lower ASCII characters only.

  link_name = db.StringProperty(required=True,

      verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Link name'))

  link_name.help_text = ugettext_lazy(

      'Field used in URLs to identify user. '

      'Lower ASCII characters only.')