app/soc/models/presence.py
author Pawel Solyga <Pawel.Solyga@gmail.com>
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:44:02 +0000
changeset 568 6713617751b4
parent 534 c31cfbf1a20f
child 805 6aaf4c33db0b
permissions -rw-r--r--
Remove inheritance from PolyModel in Answer and Linkable model. Replace PolyModel inheritance with base.ModelWithFieldAttributes. A little explanation why we are trying to get rid of PolyModel. We decided to use PolyModel in order to get support for model inheritance in App Engine, however as we know this was a hacky workaround which added inheritance_line property to each model. Recent commits which added Linkable model caused our data viewer in admin console to show only one model "Linkable" since all of the classes inherited from it. Basically datastore viewer was useless plus we had a really big mess in datastore since everything was of one kind (Linkable). It's almost like creating one huge table in SQL database. Upcoming commits will eliminate all usage of PolyModel and finally remove PolyModel from our repository. We are still using inheritance however this doesn't modify how models are saved in data store so basically it's like copy and paste of properties from parent models. Patch by: Pawel Solyga, Sverre Rabbelier

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"""This module contains the Presence Model."""

__authors__ = [
  '"Pawel Solyga" <pawel.solyga@gmail.com>',
  '"Todd Larsen" <tlarsen@google.com>',
]


from google.appengine.ext import db

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy

import soc.models.document
import soc.models.linkable


class Presence(soc.models.linkable.Linkable):
  """Model for anything that has a "presence" on a Melange site.

  A "presence" is (currently) defined as:
  * having a "home" page with contents set by selecting a Document
  * displaying an (optional) ATOM or RSS feed

  Models that have a "presence" on a Melange web site are (currently):
  * any Group (Organization, Club, etc.)
  * any Program
  * the site itself, which is a singleton Presence
  """

  #: Reference to Document containing the contents of the "/home" page
  home = db.ReferenceProperty(
    reference_class=soc.models.document.Document,
    collection_name='home')
  home.help_text = ugettext_lazy(
      'Document to be used as the "/home" page static contents.')

  #: Valid ATOM or RSS feed url or None if unused. Feed entries are shown 
  #: on the site page using Google's JavaScript blog widget  
  feed_url = db.LinkProperty(verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Feed URL'))
  feed_url.help_text = ugettext_lazy(
      'The URL should be a valid ATOM or RSS feed. '
      'Feed entries are shown on the home page.')