app/soc/models/user.py
author Pawel Solyga <Pawel.Solyga@gmail.com>
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:44:02 +0000
changeset 568 6713617751b4
parent 549 00a9ce3dc082
child 811 9e56019eb218
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 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

import soc.models.linkable


class User(soc.models.linkable.Linkable):
  """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.

   responses)  a 1:many relationship of Reponse entities submitted by the
     User.  This relation is implemented as the 'responses' back-reference
     Query of the Response model 'respondent' 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.
  account = db.UserProperty(required=True,
      verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('User account'))
  account.help_text = ugettext_lazy(
      'A valid Google Account.')

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

  #: Required field storing publicly-displayed name.  Can be a real name
  #: (though this is not recommended), or a nick name or some other public
  #: alias.  Public names can be any valid UTF-8 text.
  name = db.StringProperty(required=True,
      verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Public name'))
  name.help_text = ugettext_lazy(
      'Human-readable name (UTF-8) that will be displayed publicly on the'
      ' site.')
      
  #: 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.')