app/soc/models/user.py
author Todd Larsen <tlarsen@google.com>
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:11:27 +0000
changeset 242 17984abf0c74
parent 193 3d30a7a96ce7
child 298 c76a366c7ab4
permissions -rw-r--r--
Some TODOs on access control that I didn't want to forget.

#!/usr/bin/python2.5
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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>',
]


from google.appengine.api import users
from google.appengine.ext import db

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy

from soc.models import base


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.
     
   documents)  a 1:many relationship of Document entities identified by the
     User.  This relation is implemented as the 'user' back-reference
     Query of the Document model 'user' reference.

   groups)  a 1:many relationship of Group entities "founded" by the User.
     This relation is implemented as the 'groups' back-reference Query of
     the Group model 'founder' 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,
      verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('User account'))
  id.help_text = ugettext_lazy(
      'Email address of a valid user (Google Account).')

  #: A list (possibly empty) of former Google Accounts associated with
  #: this User.
  former_ids = db.ListProperty(users.User)

  #: 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.')

  #: field storing whether User is a Developer with site-wide access.
  is_developer = db.BooleanProperty(
      verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Is Developer'))
  is_developer.help_text = ugettext_lazy(
      'Field used to indicate user with site-wide "Developer" access.')