def get_repos_location(cls):

        return cls.get_by_key('/').one().ui_value

    @classmethod

    def create_or_update_hook(cls, key, val):

        new_ui = cls.get_by_key(key).scalar() or cls()

        new_ui.ui_section = 'hooks'

        new_ui.ui_active = True

        new_ui.ui_key = key

        new_ui.ui_value = val

        Session().add(new_ui)

class User(Base, BaseModel):

    __tablename__ = 'users'

    __table_args__ = (

        UniqueConstraint('username'), UniqueConstraint('email'),

        {'extend_existing': True, 'mysql_engine': 'InnoDB',

         'mysql_charset': 'utf8'}

    )

    user_id = Column("user_id", Integer(), nullable=False, unique=True, default=None, primary_key=True)

    username = Column("username", String(length=255, convert_unicode=False, assert_unicode=None), nullable=True, unique=None, default=None)

    password = Column("password", String(length=255, convert_unicode=False, assert_unicode=None), nullable=True, unique=None, default=None)

    active = Column("active", Boolean(), nullable=True, unique=None, default=True)

    admin = Column("admin", Boolean(), nullable=True, unique=None, default=False)

    name = Column("firstname", String(length=255, convert_unicode=False, assert_unicode=None), nullable=True, unique=None, default=None)

    lastname = Column("lastname", String(length=255, convert_unicode=False, assert_unicode=None), nullable=True, unique=None, default=None)

    _email = Column("email", String(length=255, convert_unicode=False, assert_unicode=None), nullable=True, unique=None, default=None)

    last_login = Column("last_login", DateTime(timezone=False), nullable=True, unique=None, default=None)

    ldap_dn = Column("ldap_dn", String(length=255, convert_unicode=False, assert_unicode=None), nullable=True, unique=None, default=None)

    api_key = Column("api_key", String(length=255, convert_unicode=False, assert_unicode=None), nullable=True, unique=None, default=None)

    user_log = relationship('UserLog', cascade='all')

    user_perms = relationship('UserToPerm', primaryjoin="User.user_id==UserToPerm.user_id", cascade='all')

    repositories = relationship('Repository')

    user_followers = relationship('UserFollowing', primaryjoin='UserFollowing.follows_user_id==User.user_id', cascade='all')

    repo_to_perm = relationship('UserRepoToPerm', primaryjoin='UserRepoToPerm.user_id==User.user_id', cascade='all')

    repo_group_to_perm = relationship('UserRepoGroupToPerm', primaryjoin='UserRepoGroupToPerm.user_id==User.user_id', cascade='all')

    group_member = relationship('UsersGroupMember', cascade='all')

    notifications = relationship('UserNotification', cascade='all')

    # notifications assigned to this user

    user_created_notifications = relationship('Notification', cascade='all')

    # comments created by this user

    user_comments = relationship('ChangesetComment', cascade='all')

    @hybrid_property

    def email(self):

        return self._email

    @email.setter

    def email(self, val):

        self._email = val.lower() if val else None

    @property

    def emails(self):

        other = UserEmailMap.query().filter(UserEmailMap.user==self).all()

        return [self.email] + [x.email for x in other]

    @property

    def full_name(self):

        return '%s %s' % (self.name, self.lastname)

    @property

    def full_name_or_username(self):

        return ('%s %s' % (self.name, self.lastname)

                if (self.name and self.lastname) else self.username)

    @property

    def full_contact(self):

        return '%s %s <%s>' % (self.name, self.lastname, self.email)

    @property

    def short_contact(self):

        return '%s %s' % (self.name, self.lastname)

    @property

    def is_admin(self):

        return self.admin

    def __unicode__(self):

        return u"<%s('id:%s:%s')>" % (self.__class__.__name__,

                                     self.user_id, self.username)

    @classmethod

    def get_by_username(cls, username, case_insensitive=False, cache=False):

        if case_insensitive:

            q = cls.query().filter(cls.username.ilike(username))

        else:

            q = cls.query().filter(cls.username == username)

        if cache:

            q = q.options(FromCache(