[rules-users] prevent infinite loops

Mauricio Salatino salaboy at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 13:20:49 EST 2010


lock-on-active it's ok for that kind of situations

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Garner, Shawn
<Garner.Shawn at principal.com>wrote:

> Is there a good way to globally prevent infinite loops.
> I had rule A and rule B and they both have FactA on the condition.
> They also both modify FactA.
> I tried no-loop and it prevents a loop of repeating RuleA over and over.
> However it then goes from Rule A back to Rule B back to Rule A.
> I fixed it by lock-on-active instead of no-loop.
>
> However I was wondering if there was either a timeout feature or a maximum
> number of times you could set a rule to be executed to error out on infinite
> loops.
>
> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> SDG
>
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