[rules-users] Trouble with the MVEL Map syntax

[Mark Proctor]

On 21/03/2012 20:37, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
> Yes, I was quite surprised when the DRL compilation accepted the 
> MVEL-ishly
> written function with dialect "mvel" preceding it. I thought that 
> there was some
> undocumented development. So, why does it go the way it does?
I dont' think it does. All we do is slurp in the text and pass it to the 
JDT compiler. So I doubt the the code below works. i'm looking at the 
JavaFunctionBuilder, I don't see any pre-processors that would enable 
those inline maps to work.

Mark
>
> -W
>
> On 21 March 2012 21:32, Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org 
> <mailto:mproctor at codehaus.org>> wrote:
>
>     functions can only be written in Java.
>
>     There is no support for MVEL dialect in functions.
>
>     Mark
>     On 21/03/2012 03:37, barnesjd wrote:
>     > Correction.... I didn't paste the whole function the second
>     time.  I do have
>     > a return for the else...
>     >
>     > /function int englishToInt(String englishNumber)
>     > {
>     >       Map m = ["one":1, "two":2, "three":3, "four":4, "five":5];
>     >       Object obj = m.get(englishNumber.toLowerCase());
>     >
>     >       if(obj != null)
>     >               return Integer.parseInt(obj.toString());
>     >       else
>     >               return -1;
>     > }/
>     >
>     >
>     > --
>     > View this message in context:
>     http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Trouble-with-the-MVEL-Map-syntax-tp3844609p3844617.html
>     > Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>     > _______________________________________________
>     > rules-users mailing list
>     > rules-users at lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-users at lists.jboss.org>
>     > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     rules-users mailing list
>     rules-users at lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-users at lists.jboss.org>
>     https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> rules-users mailing list
> rules-users at lists.jboss.org
> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/rules-users/attachments/20120321/6a1d2163/attachment.html