re[rules-users] trieving the RHS of a rule at run-time

[Mark Proctor]

Fermion wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I want to display all my current activations in a JTable object. On
> selection of one of the hereby created rows (each representing an activated
> rule by its name), I want to display additional info on this rule.
>
> It is no problem to retrieve the rule from the RuleBase, as I know the
> Package and Rule names. Unfortunately the toString()-output of the
> associated Consequence is not really what I want.
>
> What I really want is the RHS of the rule in analogy to the Rule.getLHS()
> method. Unfortunately there is no such method for the RHS.
>   
The RHS of the rule is a compiled code block, so its just an object, 
there is no meaningul toString that I think we could give this, so we 
don't bother. I'd recommend you maintain a mapping from the rule to the 
RHS toStrig() output that you require.
> Is there a work-around for this? I would really like to avoid parsing the
> rule file just to get the RHS of a rule.
>
> Thanks!
>