app/soc/models/proposal.py
author Pawel Solyga <Pawel.Solyga@gmail.com>
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:44:02 +0000
changeset 568 6713617751b4
parent 385 6d410bf49a82
child 970 8b5611d5b053
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 Proposal Model."""

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


from google.appengine.ext import db

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy

import soc.models.work
import soc.models.quiz
import soc.models.response


class Proposal(soc.models.work.Work):
  """Model of a Proposal, which is a specific form of a Work.

  The specific way that the properties and relations inherited from Work
  are used with a Proposal are described below.

    work.title:  the title of the Proposal

    work.reviews:  reviews of the Proposal by Reviewers

    work.content:  the details of the Proposal; which, unlike work.abstract
      is considered "public" information, the contents of a Proposal are only
      displayed to Persons in Roles that have a "need to know" those details.

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

  tasks)  an optional 1:many relationship of Task entities using the
    Proposal as their foundation.  This relation is implemented as the
    'tasks' back-reference Query of the Task model 'proposal' reference.
  """
  #: optional, indexed plain text field used for different purposes,
  #: depending on the specific type of the work
  abstract = db.StringProperty(multiline=True)
  abstract.help_text = ugettext_lazy(
      'short abstract, summary, or snippet;'
      ' 500 characters or less, plain text displayed publicly')

  #: an optional many:1 relationship between Proposal and a Quiz that
  #: defines what Questions were added by the prospective Proposal Reviewer
  #: for the Proposal author to answer.
  quiz = db.ReferenceProperty(reference_class=soc.models.quiz.Quiz,
                              required=False, collection_name="proposals")

  #: an optional 1:1 relationship where a Proposal author's Answers to
  #: a Quiz attached to the Proposal template by the Proposal Reviewer
  #; are collected. 
  response = db.ReferenceProperty(
      reference_class=soc.models.response.Response, required=False,
      collection_name="proposal")