[rules-users] API for reading and writing rules

[Stephen Masters]

Depending on your model, it may be better to create a DSL as an intermediate language. That way you have a simplified language, which you control, to parse in and out, which could be tuned to your own domain model.

Steve


On 19 Mar 2013, at 14:36, kurrent93 <kurrent93 at gmail.com> wrote:

> HI David
> 
> Yes we are also looking into rule templates.
> 
> We have come up with - what we believe - is a very natural, intuitive and visually appealing way to author rules. And it is tailored for our specific domain. 
> 
> One significant aspect of our work is that we are present drools authoring to end users - customers - rather than business users. Hence the importance of crafting a specialized UI, rather than the generic UI of Guvnor. 
> 
> And FYI - are also including in the design some UI elements, for a future version, that will use Drools Chance features. 
> 
> Can you point me to documentation - and ideally - samples around using APIs for the descriptor level? 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Davide Sottara [via Drools] <[hidden email]> wrote:
> As a RETE network is being created, DRL Rules are parsed into an internal "descriptor" structure (a high level AST)
> and then compiled into a RETE. 
> 
> There are "APIs" to create rules at the descriptor level: this can then be "dumped" back into DRL.
> To work at the DRL level directly, it's common to use parametric "templates".
> 
> If your internal (meta)model is object oriented, you could consider using DRL rules to write the translators :)
> 
> Davide
> 
> p.s. could you provide some more information about your use case? I'm doing some research on rule authoring
> environments right now. Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/19/2013 09:54 AM, Michael Anstis wrote:
>> Rules are DRL that is a String. 
>> 
>> Where and how you choose to store the String is up to you.
>> 
>> Please try to explain what you want to achieve a little more.
>> 
>> On 19 March 2013 12:49, kurrent93 <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> HI all
>> 
>> Is there any samples or documentation for reading and writing of rules?
>> 
>> The user case is we are trying to build a custom Rule Editor, and thus would
>> like to write and read rules to/from our beans.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> 
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