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The Author class represents an author of a Story.

Attributes

The attributes that are mapped to the authors table in the database:

• id: int The Author ID
• user_id: int The system user or the User currently logged in
• is_pseudonym: bool Indicates whether the Author name is a pseudonym
• name: str The Author name
• initials: str The Author's initials
• created: str This is actually a Python Datetime object except for input and output
• modified: str This is also a Python Datetime object and is updated with every update of the Author

The complex attributes supplied by the ORM:

• user: User The User class is associated with the users table in the database.
• stories: List[AuthorStory] AuthorStory objects point to the Stories the Author is associated with in the database. The AuthorStory class is associated with the authors_stories table in the database

serialize()

serialize ( ) -> dict Only the attributes mapped to the authors table will be present in the returned dictionary.