app/soc/models/request.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:42:44 +0000
changeset 2246 c29272f640b0
parent 1686 d9cc9f8ca19f
child 3046 cd08e035ac9e
permissions -rw-r--r--
Tweak the 'load balancing' algorithm In order to reduce contention we randomly skipped jobs, but this caused many jobs to end up stopping early. Now instead we keep on going until we time out (also increased the chance of doing work). Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier

#!/usr/bin/python2.5
#
# Copyright 2008 the Melange authors.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.

"""This module contains the Request Model."""

__authors__ = [
  '"Sverre Rabbelier" <sverre@rabbelier.nl>',
  '"Lennard de Rijk" <ljvderijk@gmail.com>',
]


from google.appengine.ext import db

from django.utils.translation import ugettext

import soc.models.user
import soc.models.group


class Request(soc.models.linkable.Linkable):
  """A request is made to allow a person to create a new Role entity.
  """

  role = db.StringProperty(required=True)
  role.help_text = ugettext(
      'This should be the type of the role that is requested')

  role_verbose = db.StringProperty(required=True)
  role_verbose.help_text = ugettext(
      'This should be the verbose name of the role that is in this request')

  # property that determines the status of the request
  # new : new Request
  # group_accepted : The group has accepted this request
  # completed : This request has been handled either following a creation of
  #             the role entity
  # rejected : This request has been rejected by either the user or the group
  # ignored : The request has been ignored by the group and will not give
  #           the user access to create the role
  status = db.StringProperty(required=True, default='new',
      choices=['new', 'group_accepted', 'completed', 'rejected','ignored'])
  status.help_text = ugettext('Shows the status of the request')

  #: DateTime when the request was created
  created_on = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)