[aida] Aida-Roles and Aida-Parties

[Janko Mivšek]

Nicolas Petton wrote:

> I'm thinking about the usefulness of Aida-Roles and Aida-Parties...
> I don't think those 2 packages should be included Aida. First, IMHO it
> has nothing to do in a web framework, and it makes Aida bigger for
> almost nothing. Maybe we should keep only the Person class, or move it
> to Scribo?

Party Role framework can be very valuable when you build more complex 
security scenarios, for introducing role based access control for 
instance. So even that is currently not used, can be in near future.

Duty of any framework is to provide tools for you and not necessary for 
other parts of framework alone. And from my experience this tool is 
valuable, that's why I decided to move it directly to Aida.

Another reason is that because of lack of such framework we have now two 
objects for persons: WebUser and Person in Scribo. With party/role 
framework in Aida we can now migrate in only one: Person with a WebUser 
role!

Party role framework currently looks quite complicated but when a bit of 
description will (hopefully soon) arise you see that it is not so 
complicated as seems. But very powerful.

Janko

> 
> Janko, if you use it for BiArt, maybe you could just move it from Aida
> to BiArt?
> 
> What do others think?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Nico
> 
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