Create a State system

[porowns]

Instead of doing a ton of weird things with groups, I'd like to have a state system similar to that of AllianceAuth.

Back in the early days, we had the Guild system, which was a more primitive state system that allowed guild managers to add people to their guilds, and then players could join and request groups within a guild. This was replaced by group dependency lists later on because the guild system seemed forced, but ultimately it was the best solution and we need to move towards it again.

Basically, we need State objects that act as buckets of groups. A Guest may be able to see guest groups, while an EVE Online state might be able to see EVE Online groups. This will allow us to put people in states based on certain conditions- for example EVE Online corporations or applications.

From there, I think we should be able to extend state objects like EveStateObject, which will create a state object but also let us extend them with the corporations/etc.

[porowns]

@Czahrien do you think you could do a proof of concept of a State model with an EveStateModel extending it? This way we could see if it's the right way forward... Ideally I'd like to keep the state separate from entities like EVE corporations

[porowns]

I think a more simple implementation would be the following:

States have:

• A qualifying group(s) (a group that qualifies a user to be added to this state, if none, make it default, M2M would make this more interesting possibly)
• Enabling groups (what groups are accessible by this state)
• Priority (what the priority of this state is)

Then there would be two tasks:

• Task that goes through all users and removes groups that are not enabled by their state (exclude the qualifying groups)
• Task that goes through all users and updates their state based on qualified groups + priority

And one signal:

• On M2M group change, re-evaluate a user's state

We would need a "Groups" view after this that allows users to:

• See a list of groups that they can join, and join them

To solve the EVE Online bit, we would just need to make a django-eveonline-groups extension and have it auto-add users to groups, so you'd just create a task that adds users to a group based on their character, corporation, or alliance. This would put trigger the state signal and re-assess their state.

[porowns]

Group requests might just be better suited for a separate package, but they could be here as well.. not sure.

[porowns]

https://github.com/KryptedGaming/django-eveonline-group-states