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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)