[rules-users] Mocking Guvnor

Michael Anstis michael.anstis at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 17:20:46 EDT 2014


My advice is still to mock the service. If the service is too "fat" (I.e.
has alot of business functionality) split it into "thinner" layers until
you isolate the Drools usage and then write a different implementation of
this for your tests.

Sent on the move
On 8 Aug 2014 19:29, "Ajekar, Santhosh Hegde (HP-IT)" <santhosh.hegde at hp.com>
wrote:

>  Hi Michael,
>
> Yes, you are correct. We use the KnowledgeAgent that detects changes to
> rules in Guvnor based upon a changeset.
>
> One more question.  Is there any way I can mock StatelessKnowledgeSession
> so that I can mock the output Fact object.
>
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> Thank you
>
> Santhosh Hegde A
>
>
>
> *From:* rules-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org [mailto:
> rules-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael Anstis
> *Sent:* Friday, August 08, 2014 11:28 PM
> *To:* Rules Users List
> *Subject:* Re: [rules-users] Mocking Guvnor
>
>
>
> Sounds like your service uses KnowledgeAgent that detects changes to rules
> in Guvnor based upon a changeset?
>
> Either way your requirement remains the same: *your* application
> architecture needs to support (at least) the ability to provide different
> changesets (for testing you can use a changeset that points to a local
> folder containing rules rather than Guvnor).
>
> You're not going to be able to avoid mocking some part of your application
> if you don't want to get rules from Guvnor (although I prefer the term
> pluggable - CDI use of @Specialises or @Alternative would be a good
> example, but IDK if you use CDI).
>
> Sent on the move
>
> On 8 Aug 2014 18:03, "san_hegde" <santhosh.hegde at hp.com> wrote:
>
> Actually during functional testing we want to test our service which in
> turn calls rules and we want to test the service with changing rules.  But
> we do not want to change the rules in Guvnor rather we want to somehow mock
> it.  Means depending on our tests we want to use different modified rules.
> For this if we can mock the session or guvnor or somehow so that we session
> can return the mocked fact depending on our test.
>
>
>
> Thank you
>
> Santhosh Hegde A
>
>
>
> *From:* Stephen Masters [via Drools] [mailto:ml-node+[hidden email]
> <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4030609&i=0>]
> *Sent:* Friday, August 08, 2014 9:10 PM
> *To:* Ajekar, Santhosh Hegde (HP-IT)
> *Subject:* Re: [rules-users] Mocking Guvnor
>
>
>
> Possibly also worth pointing out that inserting a fact and executing a
> session do not connect to Guvnor anyway?
>
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> Although, as Mike mentions, the simplest approach tends to be to create a
> service which wraps knowledge base access and mock that. Although you could
> also mock the session.
>
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>
> Although, I must admit I’m not sure what question is being asked...
>
>
>
> Steve
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> On 8 Aug 2014, at 13:07, Michael Anstis <[hidden email]
> <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4030608&i=0>> wrote:
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> I assume you have a service encapsulating your use of Drools?
>
>
>
> Why not mock this service to use an implementation that returns what you
> need?
>
>
>
> On 8 August 2014 03:13, san_hegde <[hidden email]
> <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4030608&i=1>> wrote:
>
> Hi ,
>
>
>
> We have requirement where in during functional testing we do not want to
> connect to Guvnor rather want to mock it.
>
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> For example mocking could be like this.
>
>
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>                 We send Fact object as input during calling
> knowledgeSession.execute() method and in rule we update the result in that
> fact object itself. So here can we mock the output fact object, so that
> during functional testing we no need to connect to Guvnor rather mocked
> result fact object is returned.
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>
> Thank you
>
> Santhosh Hegde A
>
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