Source code for kadi.lib.revisions.models

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from kadi.ext.db import db
from kadi.lib.db import UTCDateTime
from kadi.lib.utils import SimpleReprMixin
from kadi.lib.utils import utcnow


class Revision(SimpleReprMixin, db.Model):
    """Model to represent general revision metadata.

    The actual revision models are created dynamically instead and linked to this model.
    See :func:`kadi.lib.revisions.core.setup_revisions`.
    """

    class Meta:
        """Container to store meta class attributes."""

        representation = ["id", "user_id", "timestamp"]
        """See :class:`.SimpleReprMixin`."""

    __tablename__ = "revision"

    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    """The ID of the revision, auto incremented."""

    user_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey("user.id"), nullable=True)
    """The optional ID of the user who triggered the revision.

    May be omitted if there is no user that can clearly be associated with a certain
    revision, e.g. when automatically triggering a revision after deleting a resource
    that was referenced in the revisioned resource.
    """

    timestamp = db.Column(UTCDateTime, default=utcnow, nullable=False)
    """The timestamp of the revision."""

    user = db.relationship("User", back_populates="revisions")

    @classmethod
    def create(cls, *, user=None):
        """Create a new revision and add it to the database session.

        :param user: (optional) The user who triggered the revision.
        :return: The new :class:`Revision` object.
        """
        revision = cls(user=user)
        db.session.add(revision)

        return revision