[rules-users] Getting Current Date in LHS of a rule

[Wolfgang Laun]

Don't do this: LHS code should not have any side effects and should
not depend on the time a CE or constraint is evaluated.

If your variable should represent a yyy-mm-dd 0:00:00, you should
establish a global variable of type Date and initialize it after
creating your session and before inserting any facts.

-W


On 09/05/2012, sumatheja <sumatheja at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>         Can anyone tell me if there is a variable or standard way to get
> the *current date* and compare with the java.util.Date. I'm trying write
> the below rule but it doesn't work. It doesn't throw any error but the rule
> is not at all fired in any case
>
> rule "new rule"
> dialect "java"
> when
>     Message(*testDate < new Date()*)
> then
>     System.out.println("Test");
> end
> Do I have to insert a seperate fact which will contain the current date?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> cheers
> Sumatheja Dasararaju
>