app/soc/models/work.py
author Todd Larsen <tlarsen@google.com>
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:46:42 +0000
changeset 208 e076aee6e90f
parent 206 832335761384
child 220 3ebe00b44212
permissions -rw-r--r--
Take advantage of the Model inheritance provided by polymodel.PolyModel to have Club, School, Sponsor, and Organization actually inherit from the Group Model class, rather than being composed via ReferenceProperties. Patch by: Todd Larsen Review by: Pawel Solyga, Sverre Rabbelier, Augie Fackler Review URL: http://codereviews.googleopensourceprograms.com/606

#!/usr/bin/python2.5
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"""This module contains the Work Model."""

__authors__ = [
  '"Todd Larsen" <tlarsen@google.com>',
  '"Sverre Rabbelier" <sverre@rabbelier.nl>',
]

from google.appengine.ext import db

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy

import polymodel


class Work(polymodel.PolyModel):
  """Model of a Work created by one or more Persons in Roles.

  Work is a "base entity" of other more specific "works" created by Persons
  serving in "roles".

   authors)  a many:many relationship with Roles, stored in a separate
     WorksAuthors model, used to represent authorship of the Work.  See
     the WorksAuthors model class for details.

   reviews)  a 1:many relationship between a Work and the zero or more
     Reviews of that Work.  This relation is implemented as the 'reviews'
     back-reference Query of the Review model 'reviewed' reference.
  """

  #: Required field indicating the "title" of the work, which may have
  #: different uses depending on the specific type of the work. Works
  #: can be indexed, filtered, and sorted by 'title'.
  title = db.StringProperty(required=True,
      verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Title'))
  title.help_text = ugettext_lazy(
      'title of the document; often used in the window title')

  #: 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')

  #: Required link name, appended to a "path" to form the document URL.
  #: The combined "path" and link name must be globally unique on the
  #: site (but, unlike some link names, a Work link name can be reused,
  #: as long as the combination with the preceding path is unique).
  link_name = db.StringProperty(required=True,
      verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Link name'))
  link_name.help_text = ugettext_lazy('link name used in URLs')

  #: short name used in places such as the sidebar menu and breadcrumb trail
  #: (optional: title will be used if short_name is not present)
  short_name = db.StringProperty(verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Short name'))
  short_name.help_text = ugettext_lazy(
      'short name used, for example, in the sidebar menu')
  
  #: date when the work was created
  created = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)
  
  #: date when the work was last modified
  modified = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now=True)