doc/book/devrepo/datamodel/baseschema.rst
author Sylvain Thénault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr>
Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:15:25 +0200
changeset 10513 7bec01a59f92
parent 10491 c67bcee93248
child 12539 10159a3d1d72
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[dataimport] dispatch and deprecate old code previously, the whole dataimport.py content has been copied in dataimport/__init__.py, then dataimport/importer.py API has been introduced. Following these changes, this cset: * dispatch __init__ code into sub-modules * dispatch unittest_dataimport accordingly * deprecates functions and classes that are deprecated by the new API Related to #5414753.

.. _pre_defined_entity_types:

Pre-defined entities in the library
-----------------------------------

The library defines a set of entity schemas that are required by the system
or commonly used in *CubicWeb* instances.


Entity types used to store the schema
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* _`CWEType`, entity type
* _`CWRType`, relation type
* _`CWRelation`, relation definition
* _`CWAttribute`, attribute relation definition
* _`CWConstraint`,  `CWConstraintType`, `RQLExpression`

Entity types used to manage users and permissions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* _`CWUser`, system users
* _`CWGroup`, users groups

Entity types used to manage workflows
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* :ref:`Workflow <Workflow>`, workflow entity, linked to some entity types which may use this workflow
* _`State`, workflow state
* _`Transition`, workflow transition
* _`TrInfo`, record of a transition trafic for an entity

Other entity types
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* _`CWCache`, cache entities used to improve performances
* _`CWProperty`, used to configure the instance

* _`EmailAddress`, email address, used by the system to send notifications
  to the users and also used by others optionnals schemas

* _`Bookmark`, an entity type used to allow a user to customize his links within
  the instance

* _`ExternalUri`, used for semantic web site to indicate that an entity is the
  same as another from an external site