-- -- acs-kernel/sql/community-core-create.sql -- -- Abstractions fundamental to any online community (or information -- system, in general), derived in large part from the ACS 3.x -- community-core data model by Philip Greenspun (philg@mit.edu), from -- the ACS 3.x user-groups data model by Tracy Adams (teadams@mit.edu) -- from Chapter 3 (The Enterprise and Its World) of David Hay's -- book _Data_Model_Patterns_, and from Chapter 2 (Accountability) -- of Martin Fowler's book _Analysis_Patterns_. -- -- @author Michael Yoon (michael@arsdigita.com) -- @author Rafael Schloming (rhs@mit.edu) -- @author Jon Salz (jsalz@mit.edu) -- -- @creation-date 2000-05-18 -- -- @cvs-id $Id: community-core-create.sql,v 1.1.1.1 2001/03/13 22:59:26 ben Exp $ -- -- HIGH PRIORITY: -- -- * What can subtypes add to the specification of supertype -- attributes? Extra constraints like "not null"? What about -- "storage"? Can a subtype override how a given attribute is -- stored? -- -- * Can we realistically revoke INSERT and UPDATE permission on the -- tables (users, persons, etc.) and make people use the PL/SQL API? -- One downside is that it would then be difficult or impossible to -- do things like "update ... set ... where ..." directly, without -- creating a PL/SQL procedure to do it. -- -- * Figure out how to migrate from ACS 3.x users, user_groups, -- user_group_types, etc. to ACS 4.0 objects/parties/users/organizations; -- also need to consider general_* and site_wide_* tables -- (Rafi and Luke) -- -- * Take an inventory of acs-kernel tables and other objects (some of which -- may still be in /www/doc/sql/) and create their ACS 4 analogs, including -- mapping over all general_* and site_wide_* data models, and make -- appropriate adjustments to code -- (Rafi and Yon/Luke/?). -- -- * Create magic users: system and anonymous (do we actually need these?) -- -- * Define and implement APIs -- -- * Figure out user classes, e.g., treat "the set of parties that -- have relationship X to object Y" as a party in its own right -- -- * Explain why acs_rel_types, acs_rel_rules, and acs_rels are not -- merely replicating the functionality of a relational database. -- -- * acs_attribute_type should impose some rules on the min_n_values -- and max_n_values columns of acs_attributes, e.g., it doesn't -- really make sense for a boolean attribute to have more than -- one value -- -- * Add support for default values to acs_attributes. -- -- * Add support for instance-specific attributes (e.g., -- user_group_member_fields) -- -- MEDIUM PRIORITY: -- -- * Read-only attributes? -- -- * Do we need to store metadata about enumerations and valid ranges -- or should we query the Oracle data dictionary for info on check -- constraints? -- -- * Create a "user_group_type" (an object_type with "organization" -- as its supertype (do we need this?) -- -- * Add in ancestor permission view, assuming that we'll use a -- magical rel_type: "acs_acl"? -- -- * How do we get all attribute values for objects of a specific -- type? "We probably want some convention or standard way for -- providing a view that joins supertypes and a type. This could -- be automatically generated through metadata, or it could simply -- be a convention." - Rafi -- -- LOW PRIORITY: -- -- * Formalize Rafi's definition of an "object": "A collection of rows -- identified by an object ID for which we maintain metadata" or -- something like that. -- -- * "We definitely need some standard way of extending a supertype into -- a subtype, and 'deleting' a subtype into a supertype. This will be -- needed when we want to transform a 'person' into a registered -- user, and do 'nuke user' but keep around the user's contributed -- content and associate it with the 'person' part of that user. This -- actually works quite nicely with standard oracle inheritance since -- you can just insert or delete a row in the subtype table and -- mutate the object type." - Rafi -- -- ACS 4.1: -- -- * Figure out what to do with pretty names (message catalog) -- -- COMPLETED: -- -- * Create magic parties: all_users (or just use null party_id?) -- and registered_users -- -- * Test out relationship attributes (making "relationship" an -- acs_object_type) -- -- * Create magic object_types (object, party, person, user, -- organization) including attrs and rels -- -- * Create constraints for creation_user and modifying_user declare attr_id acs_attributes.attribute_id%TYPE; begin -- -- Party: the supertype of person and organization -- acs_object_type.create_type ( supertype => 'acs_object', object_type => 'party', pretty_name => 'Party', pretty_plural => 'Parties', table_name => 'parties', id_column => 'party_id', package_name => 'party', name_method => 'party.name' ); attr_id := acs_attribute.create_attribute ( object_type => 'party', attribute_name => 'email', datatype => 'string', pretty_name => 'Email Address', pretty_plural => 'Email Addresses', min_n_values => 0, max_n_values => 1 ); attr_id := acs_attribute.create_attribute ( object_type => 'party', attribute_name => 'url', datatype => 'string', pretty_name => 'URL', pretty_plural => 'URLs', min_n_values => 0, max_n_values => 1 ); -- -- Person: the supertype of user -- acs_object_type.create_type ( supertype => 'party', object_type => 'person', pretty_name => 'Person', pretty_plural => 'People', table_name => 'persons', id_column => 'person_id', package_name => 'person', name_method => 'person.name' ); attr_id := acs_attribute.create_attribute ( object_type => 'person', attribute_name => 'first_names', datatype => 'string', pretty_name => 'First Names', pretty_plural => 'First Names', min_n_values => 0, max_n_values => 1 ); attr_id := acs_attribute.create_attribute ( object_type => 'person', attribute_name => 'last_name', datatype => 'string', pretty_name => 'Last Name', pretty_plural => 'Last Names', min_n_values => 0, max_n_values => 1 ); -- -- User: people who have registered in the system -- acs_object_type.create_type ( supertype => 'person', object_type => 'user', pretty_name => 'User', pretty_plural => 'Users', table_name => 'users', id_column => 'user_id', package_name => 'acs_user' ); commit; end; / show errors -- ****************************************************************** -- * OPERATIONAL LEVEL -- ****************************************************************** create table parties ( party_id not null constraint parties_party_id_fk references acs_objects (object_id) constraint parties_pk primary key, email varchar2(100) constraint parties_email_un unique, url varchar2(200) ); comment on table parties is ' Party is the supertype of person and organization. It exists because many other types of object can have relationships to parties. '; comment on column parties.url is ' We store url here so that we can always make party names hyperlinks without joining to any other table. '; ------------------- -- PARTY PACKAGE -- ------------------- create or replace package party as function new ( party_id in parties.party_id%TYPE default null, object_type in acs_objects.object_type%TYPE default 'party', creation_date in acs_objects.creation_date%TYPE default sysdate, creation_user in acs_objects.creation_user%TYPE default null, creation_ip in acs_objects.creation_ip%TYPE default null, email in parties.email%TYPE, url in parties.url%TYPE default null, context_id in acs_objects.context_id%TYPE default null ) return parties.party_id%TYPE; procedure delete ( party_id in parties.party_id%TYPE ); function name ( party_id in parties.party_id%TYPE ) return varchar2; end party; / show errors create or replace package body party as function new ( party_id in parties.party_id%TYPE default null, object_type in acs_objects.object_type%TYPE default 'party', creation_date in acs_objects.creation_date%TYPE default sysdate, creation_user in acs_objects.creation_user%TYPE default null, creation_ip in acs_objects.creation_ip%TYPE default null, email in parties.email%TYPE, url in parties.url%TYPE default null, context_id in acs_objects.context_id%TYPE default null ) return parties.party_id%TYPE is v_party_id parties.party_id%TYPE; begin v_party_id := acs_object.new(party_id, object_type, creation_date, creation_user, creation_ip, context_id); insert into parties (party_id, email, url) values (v_party_id, lower(email), url); return v_party_id; end new; procedure delete ( party_id in parties.party_id%TYPE ) is begin acs_object.delete(party_id); end delete; function name ( party_id in parties.party_id%TYPE ) return varchar2 is begin if party_id = -1 then return 'The Public'; else return null; end if; end name; end party; / show errors ------------- -- PERSONS -- ------------- create table persons ( person_id not null constraint persons_person_id_fk references parties (party_id) constraint persons_pk primary key, first_names varchar2(100) not null, last_name varchar2(100) not null ); comment on table persons is ' Need to handle titles like Mr., Ms., Mrs., Dr., etc. and suffixes like M.D., Ph.D., Jr., Sr., III, IV, etc. '; -------------------- -- PERSON PACKAGE -- -------------------- create or replace package person as function new ( person_id in persons.person_id%TYPE default null, object_type in acs_objects.object_type%TYPE default 'person', creation_date in acs_objects.creation_date%TYPE default sysdate, creation_user in acs_objects.creation_user%TYPE default null, creation_ip in acs_objects.creation_ip%TYPE default null, email in parties.email%TYPE, url in parties.url%TYPE default null, first_names in persons.first_names%TYPE, last_name in persons.last_name%TYPE, context_id in acs_objects.context_id%TYPE default null ) return persons.person_id%TYPE; procedure delete ( person_id in persons.person_id%TYPE ); function name ( person_id in persons.person_id%TYPE ) return varchar2; end person; / show errors create or replace package body person as function new ( person_id in persons.person_id%TYPE default null, object_type in acs_objects.object_type%TYPE default 'person', creation_date in acs_objects.creation_date%TYPE default sysdate, creation_user in acs_objects.creation_user%TYPE default null, creation_ip in acs_objects.creation_ip%TYPE default null, email in parties.email%TYPE, url in parties.url%TYPE default null, first_names in persons.first_names%TYPE, last_name in persons.last_name%TYPE, context_id in acs_objects.context_id%TYPE default null ) return persons.person_id%TYPE is v_person_id persons.person_id%TYPE; begin v_person_id := party.new(person_id, object_type, creation_date, creation_user, creation_ip, email, url, context_id); insert into persons (person_id, first_names, last_name) values (v_person_id, first_names, last_name); return v_person_id; end new; procedure delete ( person_id in persons.person_id%TYPE ) is begin delete from persons where person_id = person.delete.person_id; party.delete(person_id); end delete; function name ( person_id in persons.person_id%TYPE ) return varchar2 is person_name varchar2(200); begin select first_names || ' ' || last_name into person_name from persons where person_id = name.person_id; return person_name; end name; end person; / show errors create table users ( user_id not null constraint users_user_id_fk references persons (person_id) constraint users_pk primary key, password char(40), salt char(40), screen_name varchar2(100) constraint users_screen_name_un unique, priv_name integer default 0 not null, priv_email integer default 5 not null, email_verified_p char(1) default 't' constraint users_email_verified_p_ck check (email_verified_p in ('t', 'f')), email_bouncing_p char(1) default 'f' not null constraint users_email_bouncing_p_ck check (email_bouncing_p in ('t','f')), no_alerts_until date, last_visit date, second_to_last_visit date, n_sessions integer default 1 not null, password_question varchar2(1000), password_answer varchar2(1000) ); create table user_preferences ( user_id constraint user_prefs_user_id_fk references users (user_id) constraint user_preferences_pk primary key, prefer_text_only_p char(1) default 'f' constraint user_prefs_pref_txt_only_p_ck check (prefer_text_only_p in ('t','f')), -- an ISO 639 language code (in lowercase) language_preference char(2) default 'en', dont_spam_me_p char(1) default 'f' constraint user_prefs_dont_spam_me_p_ck check (dont_spam_me_p in ('t','f')), email_type varchar2(64) ); begin insert into acs_object_type_tables (object_type, table_name, id_column) values ('user', 'user_preferences', 'user_id'); end; / show errors; alter table acs_objects add ( constraint acs_objects_creation_user_fk foreign key (creation_user) references users(user_id), constraint acs_objects_modifying_user_fk foreign key (modifying_user) references users(user_id) ); comment on table users is ' The creation_date and creation_ip columns inherited from acs_objects indicate when and from where the user registered. How do we apply a constraint ("email must not be null") to the parent type? '; comment on column users.no_alerts_until is ' For suppressing email alerts '; comment on column users.last_visit is ' Set when user reappears at site '; comment on column users.second_to_last_visit is ' This is what most pages query against (since last_visit will only be a few minutes old for most pages in a session) '; comment on column users.n_sessions is ' How many times this user has visited '; ---------------------- -- ACS_USER PACKAGE -- ---------------------- create or replace package acs_user as function new ( user_id in users.user_id%TYPE default null, object_type in acs_objects.object_type%TYPE default 'user', creation_date in acs_objects.creation_date%TYPE default sysdate, creation_user in acs_objects.creation_user%TYPE default null, creation_ip in acs_objects.creation_ip%TYPE default null, email in parties.email%TYPE, url in parties.url%TYPE default null, first_names in persons.first_names%TYPE, last_name in persons.last_name%TYPE, password in users.password%TYPE, salt in users.salt%TYPE, password_question in users.password_question%TYPE default null, password_answer in users.password_answer%TYPE default null, screen_name in users.screen_name%TYPE default null, email_verified_p in users.email_verified_p%TYPE default 't', context_id in acs_objects.context_id%TYPE default null ) return users.user_id%TYPE; function receives_alerts_p ( user_id in users.user_id%TYPE ) return char; procedure approve_email ( user_id in users.user_id%TYPE ); procedure unapprove_email ( user_id in users.user_id%TYPE ); procedure delete ( user_id in users.user_id%TYPE ); end acs_user; / show errors create or replace package body acs_user as function new ( user_id in users.user_id%TYPE default null, object_type in acs_objects.object_type%TYPE default 'user', creation_date in acs_objects.creation_date%TYPE default sysdate, creation_user in acs_objects.creation_user%TYPE default null, creation_ip in acs_objects.creation_ip%TYPE default null, email in parties.email%TYPE, url in parties.url%TYPE default null, first_names in persons.first_names%TYPE, last_name in persons.last_name%TYPE, password in users.password%TYPE, salt in users.salt%TYPE, password_question in users.password_question%TYPE default null, password_answer in users.password_answer%TYPE default null, screen_name in users.screen_name%TYPE default null, email_verified_p in users.email_verified_p%TYPE default 't', context_id in acs_objects.context_id%TYPE default null ) return users.user_id%TYPE is v_user_id users.user_id%TYPE; begin v_user_id := person.new(user_id, object_type, creation_date, creation_user, creation_ip, email, url, first_names, last_name, context_id); insert into users (user_id, password, salt, password_question, password_answer, screen_name, email_verified_p) values (v_user_id, password, salt, password_question, password_answer, screen_name, email_verified_p); insert into user_preferences (user_id) values (v_user_id); return v_user_id; end new; function receives_alerts_p ( user_id in users.user_id%TYPE ) return char is counter char(1); begin select decode(count(*),0,'f','t') into counter from users where no_alerts_until >= sysdate and user_id = acs_user.receives_alerts_p.user_id; return counter; end receives_alerts_p; procedure approve_email ( user_id in users.user_id%TYPE ) is begin update users set email_verified_p = 't' where user_id = approve_email.user_id; end approve_email; procedure unapprove_email ( user_id in users.user_id%TYPE ) is begin update users set email_verified_p = 'f' where user_id = unapprove_email.user_id; end unapprove_email; procedure delete ( user_id in users.user_id%TYPE ) is begin delete from user_preferences where user_id = acs_user.delete.user_id; delete from users where user_id = acs_user.delete.user_id; person.delete(user_id); end delete; end acs_user; / show errors