Moved login checks out to utils

utils/user_utils.py

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+from flask import session
+from models.users.user import User
+from controllers.database.user import UserController
+
+def is_logged_in() -> User | None:
+    """ Returns the user object if the user is logged in
+        Otherwise returns a None type
+     """
+    user_id = session.get('user_id')
+    
+    if user_id is not None:
+        db = UserController()
+        return db.read_id(user_id)
+    return None
+
+
+def is_role(role: str) -> bool:
+    """ Function that returns true if the user is logged in as"""
+    user = is_logged_in()
+
+    if user is not None:
+        return user.role == role
+
+    # User isn't logged in
+    return False