app/soc/models/author.py
author Todd Larsen <tlarsen@google.com>
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:22:23 +0000
changeset 54 03e267d67478
parent 12 soc/models/author.py@bdb96b9afe8e
permissions -rw-r--r--
Major reorganization of the soc svn repo, to merge into a single App Engine image (to make development easier, now that only a single app will run all Google Open Source programs).

#!/usr/bin/python2.5
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"""This module contains the Author Model."""

__authors__ = [
  '"Todd Larsen" <tlarsen@google.com>',
  '"Sverre Rabbelier" <sverre@rabbelier.nl>',
]

from google.appengine.ext import db

from soc import models
import soc.models.person


class Author(db.Model):
  """Author details for a specific Program.

  An Author entity participates in the following relationships implemented 
  as a db.ReferenceProperty elsewhere in another db.Model:

   works)  a many:many relationship with Works, stored in a separate
     WorksAuthors model.  See the WorksAuthors model class for details.

   contributor)  a 1:1 relationship associating a Contributor with generic
     Author details and capabilities.  This relation is implemented as the
     'contributor' back-reference Query of the Contributor model 'author'
     reference.

   reviewer)  a 1:1 relationship associating a Reviewer with generic
     Author details and capabilities.  This relation is implemented as the
     'reviewer' back-reference Query of the Reviewer model 'author' reference.

   admin)  a 1:1 relationship associating an Administrator with generic
     Author details and capabilities.  This relation is implemented as the
     'admin' back-reference Query of the Administrator model 'author'
     reference.
  """

  #: A required 1:1 relationship associating generic Person details
  #: with the Author role entity.
  person = db.ReferenceProperty(reference_class=models.person.Person, 
		  		required=True, collection_name="author")