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**NOTICE** GeniusWebPython is due for release on august 2, 2021

= GeniusWebPython =

''GeniusWeb'' is an open architecture for negotiation via the internet. The core of the architecture is a JSON based communication protocol that standardizes the communication messages comprising a negotiation. 

This project contains a python-based implementation of GeniusWeb core objects. It allows easy (de)serialization of many data structures needed for negotiation in GeniusWeb. Some data structures have not yet been implemented in GeniusWebPython, this will be done as needed. Please contact us if you need some missing classes. 

A specification and full reference implementation of the GeniusWeb core is available [https://tracinsy.ewi.tudelft.nl/pubtrac/GeniusWeb here]

= Overview of the available core objects

= Example Parties
Example parties can be found [source:/exampleparties here]. Many of these are also included with the basic [https://tracinsy.ewi.tudelft.nl/pubtrac/GeniusWebPythonPartiesServer parties server] to provide basic functionality.

Below is a table showing the currently available example parties and their properties. Notice, "Supported profile types" gives the class names of all supported types, so for instance "PartialOrdering" means all subclasses of PartialOrdering which also includes all UtilitySpaces.

||= Party =||= Protocol =||= Supported profile types =||= Parameters (default value) =||
||RandomParty||SAOP, Learn||LinearAdditive||minPower (2), maxPower (infinity). Used to control voting behaviour||
||stupidparty||SAOP||LinearAdditive||-||


== GeniusWeb sources

=== Downloading source code

 You can browse the GeniusWeb core sources directly using the browse button at the right top of this page.

You can download the source code of this component using 

{{{
svn co https://tracinsy.ewi.tudelft.nl/pub/svn/GeniusWebPython
}}}

Normal developers that write new parties do not need to install the GeniusWeb source code. Even if you want to debug/trace into the GeniusWeb code -- for instance for debugging or understanding the inner workings of geniusWeb--, IDEs like Eclipse automatically allow this as the pip-installed libraries contain sources.