[rules-users] NullPointerException when using bean property which happens to be a Enum name

[Davide Sottara]

Thanks, it deserves investigation. There seems to be at least a bug in
Guvnor -
it should create a constraint such as :

Foo( myEnum == MyEnum.someitem )


On 04/18/2013 10:19 AM, Sean Su wrote:
> I am using 5.5.0.Final and I think I may have run into a bug.
>
> Assuming I have a class Foo  that has a getter which is getMyEnum().
>
> Also I have a Enum class which happens to have the name MyEnum.
>
> When writing rules, I have 
>
> $foo : Foo (MyEnum == MyEnum.someItem)
>
> This line will throw NullPointerException. 
>
> I have to write it as:
> $foo : Foo (getMyEnum() == MyEnum.someItem)
>
> This statement will work just fine.
>
> The workaround is ok for DRL. However I tested this on Guvnor and the
> rule editor would generate the DRL just like the first statement
> (MyEnum == MyEnum.someItem). So we would be out of luck there.
>
> Has anyone ever ran into this before.
>
> Thanks
>
> Sean
>
>
>
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