[rules-users] Need help with Decision Table Conditions

[Tihomir Surdilovic]

Hi Wolfgang, good points, thus I asked for a Jira so we can add proper 
support for it.
If you know of a better workaround with whats currently available let us 
know.

Thanks.

On 1/10/11 10:13 AM, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
> I would not use I / DESCRIPTION for these reasons:
>
>     * it's not parameterized, and I think you don't want to repeat the
>       @Meta(...) for every rule, you just want the argument
>     * you can use only one I column, since the 2nd one silently
>       overwrites the 1st one, so you'll have to squeeze multiple @s
>       into one cell
>     * it is an undocumented feature, and the name would suggest that
>       it was intended for providing a comment
>
> Adding a proper metadata column type is simple, given what is 
> available from other column types.
>
> -W
>
> 2011/1/10 Tihomir Surdilovic <tsurdilo at redhat.com 
> <mailto:tsurdilo at redhat.com>>
>
>     Hi Jason,
>     for fact types and attributes you should be able to reuse the
>     Functions keyword in the RuleSet section of your sheet, for example:
>
>     -----------------------------------------------
>     | Functions | declare Person @author( Bob ) ......... end |
>     -----------------------------------------------
>
>     For rule attributes you can reuse the "I" keyword as the cell
>     header and add the attributes, for example:
>
>     -------------------------------------------------
>     |RuleTable Sample|                          
>     |                               |
>     -------------------------------------------------
>     |     Condition       |            I              |        
>     Action            |
>     -------------------------------------------------
>     | $p : Person        |                           |                
>                   |
>     -------------------------------------------------
>     | name==$param|                          
>     |                                |
>     -------------------------------------------------
>     |   SomeName       | @author( Bob )   |      System.out.....    |
>     -------------------------------------------------
>
>     Neither are optimal, but just workarounds. If you raise a Jira, I
>     can put on todo list.
>     Hope this helps.
>
>     Thanks.
>     Tihomir
>
>     On 1/7/11 9:35 PM, Jason Mihalick wrote:
>>     Tihomir, Do you know if decision tables support metadata
>>     <http://downloads.jboss.com/drools/docs/5.1.1.34858.FINAL/drools-expert/html_single/index.html#d0e3368>?
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