Assuming TYPE_1 is the opposite of TYPE_2 and not just a difference it should work.<br><br>What is "opposite" is perhaps difficult to define as there is probably some semantics involved: up\down, left\right, yes\no. <br>
<br>These have well defined meanings and hence we can say with some certainty that these are opposites or one and other.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 May 2012 14:07, Ben Cuthbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bencuthbert@ymail.com" target="_blank">bencuthbert@ymail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">All<div><br></div><div>If I have an object say </div><div><br></div><div>class TestObject {</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>private String type;</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>private String name;</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>And I want to match opposite types so I fire in the following</div>
<div><br></div><div>insert(new TestObject("TYPE_1", "This is our type 1 object");</div><div>insert(new TestObject("TYPE_2", "This is our type 1 object");</div><div><br></div><div>So I want to say only match again opposite types</div>
<div><br></div><div>would this work?</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco">rule "#999 Match"</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco">
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>dialect "<span style="text-decoration:underline">mvel</span>"</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco">
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>when</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco"><span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> $incoming : </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">TestObject</span><span>($type: type)</span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco"><span><span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> $current : </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">TestObject</span><span>(</span> </span>type<span> != $</span>type<span>)</span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>then</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco">
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> insert(new String("LOGGING: incoming:" + $incoming.getT<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">ype</span>() + " current:" + $current.getType() ));</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco">end</div></div><div><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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