[rules-users] Buggy query behavior in drools 5.6 and 6.1-SNAPSHOT ??

[Esteban Aliverti]

Good catch Davide. I can confirm that not using nested accessors the query
works as expected.

Regards,


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Esteban Aliverti
- Blog @ http://ilesteban.wordpress.com


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Davide Sottara <dsotty at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Indeed, the use case can be simplified further:
>
> package org.drools.test.bc;
>
> declare Parent
>     attribute2 : String
> end
>
> declare Child
>     parentId : String
> end
>
> query getChildWithName( String $parentId, Child $child )
>     $child:= Child( parentId == $parentId )
>
> end
>
> rule "Insert Children"
> when
> then
>     Parent p1 = new Parent( "a1" );
>     Child c1p1 = new Child( "1" );
>
>     insert( c1p1 );
>     insert( p1 );
>
> end
>
> rule "Rule A"
> when
>     $p: Parent( $a2 : attribute2 )
>     ?getChildWithName( $p.attribute2, $child;)
> then
>     System.out.println("FOUND: "+ $child + " >> " + $child.getParentId() +
> " == " + $p.getAttribute2() + " ??" );
> end
>
> It has nothing to do with nested objects, @PR or modifications.
> It seems that the culprit is the chained property accessor.
>
>
> Davide
>
>
>
> On 01/22/2014 02:22 PM, Esteban Aliverti wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
> I was writing some rules using backward chaining and found a strange
> behavior.
> I managed to isolate the error in the test project I'm attaching.
>
>  In the project I have 2 classes: Parent and Child
>
>  Parent:
>     * String id
>     * String attribute1
>     * String attribute2
>     * List<Child> children
>
>  Child:
>     * String parentId;
>     * String name;
>     * String value;
>
>
>  In the test I'm creating 1 Parent object with just 1 child and then
> inserting the Parent object into a drools session:
>
>          Parent p1 = new Parent();
>         p1.setId("1");
>         p1.setAttribute1("a1");
>         p1.setAttribute2(null);
>
>          Child c1p1 = new Child();
>         c1p1.setName("n1");
>         c1p1.setParentId(p1.getId());
>         c1p1.setValue("v1.1");
>         p1.addChild(c1p1);
>
>         kSession.insert(p1);
>         kSession.fireAllRules();
>
>
>  So far so good.
> The rules I have in my session are the following:
>
>  declare Parent
>     @propertyReactive
> end
>
>  query getChildWithName(String $parentId, String $name, Child $child)
>     $child:= Child(parentId == $parentId, name == $name)
> end
>
>  rule "Insert Children"
> when
>     $p: Parent()    @watch(!*)
>     $c: Child() from $p.children
> then
>     System.out.println("Inserting child "+$c);
>     insert($c);
> end
>
>  rule "Rule A"
> when
>     $p: Parent(attribute2 != null)
>     ?getChildWithName($p.attribute2, "n1", $child;)
> then
>     System.out.println("FOUND: "+$child+". The attribute 'parentId' of
> this object must have the value '"+$p.getAttribute2()+"'. Does it?
> "+$child.getParentId()+" == "+$p.getAttribute2()+" ??");
>     globalList.add($child);
> end
>
>
>  rule "Copy Attribute1 into Attribute2"
> when
>     $p: Parent(attribute1 != null, attribute2 == null)
> then
>     modify($p){
>         setAttribute2($p.getAttribute1())
>     }
> end
>
>  The important part here is 'Rule A' and 'Copy Attribute1 into
> Attribute2'. The latter copies the value of attribute1 to attribute2 for
> any Parent object present in the session. (Note that the parent I'm
> inserting has attribute2 = null). 'Rule A' is then using a query to get a
> Child object that has a parent with id = $p.attribute2 (where $p is a
> previously matched Parent).
> Given that I only have 1 Parent in my session and that its id is '1' I
> don't expect 'Rule A' to be activated/executed. When I modify
> parent.attribute2 in 'Copy Attribute1 into Attribute2' I'm setting its
> value to 'a1'. 'Rule A' (via the query) should then look for a Child with
> parentid = 'a1' and It shouldn't find anything.
> Funny thing is that 'Rule A' activates and fires. The child object that is
> 'returned' by the query has a parentId of '1' so I don't know how this
> behavior is possible. If you take a look at the System.out output you will
> see that the activation makes no sense at all.
>
>  Am I doing something wrong in my project? Is this a bug? Is this the
> expected behavior?
>
>  Regards,
>
>
>
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>
> Esteban Aliverti
> - Blog @ http://ilesteban.wordpress.com
>
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