Strict typing on Role Contract prevents looking Role up by UUID

[kylelogue]

https://github.com/spatie/laravel-permission/blob/master/src/Contracts/Role.php#L38

this is forcing the $id to be an int, and when you swap to UUIDs this function is no longer usable. You can't even replace the implementation bc that would have to implement this contract as well

throws error:

Argument 1 passed to Spatie\\Permission\\Models\\Role::findById() must be of the type int, string given

[drbyte]

There are a half-dozen places where this is used, and all of those only fall findById if the value is integer/numeric.
I assume your reason for posting is that you've removed those integer/numeric filters in your code?
Changing the integer/numeric filter to allow strings would get confused with actual named permissions/roles. Assuming the (int) contract were changed, how were you envisioning preventing this confusion of uuid strings with role/permission name strings?

[kylelogue]

I ended up writing my own role/permission logic as what I needed wasn't supported by this package.