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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Based on you example, you might want to consider defining a global and passing similarly the to what you show, and in your code where you initialize the KnowledgeSession,
set the global from your Java code. In this way, you can uniquely identify each session using a uid that you define in your own code.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Import java.util.UUID<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">global UUID uid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">rule ‘something’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">then<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> Notification.sendSMS(uid);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">End<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In JAVA:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">private UUID firerulesForSession(StatefulKnowledgeSession kSession) {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">final String sourceMethod = “firerulesForSession”;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">// generate a globally unique ID. Preferably this should be passed in as an argument.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">final UUID uid = UUID.randomUUID();
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> kSession.setGlobal(“uid”,uid);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>log</i>.fine("Preparing Command Factory");<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> List<Command<?>> cmds =
<b>new</b> ArrayList<Command<?>>();<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> cmds.add(CommandFactory.<i>newInsertElements</i>(facts));<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> cmds.add(CommandFactory.<i>newFireAllRules</i>());<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> // start a new process instance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>try</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>log</i>.info("Firing Rules: ");<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> // kSession.execute(getFacts(bbSecurity, packageName));<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> kSession.execute(CommandFactory.<i>newBatchExecution</i>(cmds));<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> }<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>catch</b> (Throwable e)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">
<i>log</i>.throwing(<i>sourceClass</i>, sourceMethod, e);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> }<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> return uuid;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Of course you will need to adapt for your solution, and a GUID (UUID) may be overkill for what you’re doing, and since the kSession.execute() is not an asynchronous
call, you need to deal with the uuid before firing the rules, so that the sendSMS() function will know what the UUID means.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org [mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bobby Richards<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 18, 2012 6:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> rules-users@lists.jboss.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [rules-users] global identifier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a way to create a 'global' that is completely specific to a drl file rather than the working memory? I only wish to use this in rhs notification/persistence operations, ie passing a user's unique id to a db or sms operation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know this does not work but perhaps it will help to better illustrate my question:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">global int user_id = 123;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> then<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> notification.sendSMS(user_id);<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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