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

__authors__ = [

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

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

]

from google.appengine.ext import db

class User(db.Model):

  """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)