Adding in a new message data model and the corresponding methods to in the API.

data/database.py

@@ -774,6 +774,8 @@ class LogEntry(BaseModel):
       (('repository', 'datetime', 'kind'), False),
     )
 
+class Message(BaseModel):
+  content = TextField()
 
 class RepositoryActionCount(BaseModel):
   repository = ForeignKeyField(Repository)

data/migrations/versions/a3002f7638d5_adding_in_messages_table.py

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+"""Adding in messages table
+
+Revision ID: a3002f7638d5
+Revises: c9b91bee7554
+Create Date: 2016-10-07 11:14:15.054546
+
+"""
+
+# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
+revision = 'a3002f7638d5'
+down_revision = 'c9b91bee7554'
+
+from alembic import op
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+from sqlalchemy.dialects import mysql
+
+def upgrade(tables):
+    op.create_table('messages',
+                    sa.Column("id", sa.INTEGER, primary_key=True),
+                    sa.Column("content", sa.UnicodeText, nullable=False),
+                    sa.PrimaryKeyConstraint('id', name=op.f('pk_messages'))
+                    )
+
+
+def downgrade(tables):
+    op.drop_table('messages')

data/model/__init__.py

@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ from data.model import (
   image,
   label,
   log,
+  message,
   modelutil,
   notification,
   oauth,

data/model/message.py

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+from data.database import Message
+
+
+def get_messages():
+  messages = []
+  for message in Message.select():
+    messages.append({'id': message.id, 'content': message.content})
+  return messages
+
+def create(messages):
+  for message in messages:
+    Message.create(content=message['content'])