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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>I'm new to drools, so hopefully I can post enough information to get some help. We are running Drools 5.3.3.Final (though we've seen the same issue with 5.4.0.Final and 5.3.0.Final)</div><div><br></div><div>I'm trying to test some rules created in drl format. Here's an example of a drl that executes fine – it checks a birthday field against a date literal:</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">package drools.rules.funnelid.two</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">import com.infusionsoft.bpm.services.TestRuleFact;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">rule "Test Rule"</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>dialect "java"</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>when</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>$testRuleFact : TestRuleFact( ( contactable.contact.birthday < "29-Dec-1977" ) )</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>then</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>$testRuleFact.setTrue( );</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">end</p></p></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>However, this drl fails compilation with the following error:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">package drools.rules.funnelid.two</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">import com.infusionsoft.bpm.services.TestRuleFact;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">rule "Test Rule"</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>dialect "java"</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>when</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>$testRuleFact : TestRuleFact( ( contactable.contact.title str[equals] "Owner" && contactable.contact.birthday < "01-Jan-1980" ) || ( contactable.contact.country str[equals] "USA" && contactable.contact.leadSourceIdOverride == "12" ) )</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>then</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>$testRuleFact.setTrue( );</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">End</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">------------------------------------------</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Here's the error I get:</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">DRL contains errors, no actions will be processed: Unable to Analyse Expression str0.evaluate( contactable.contact.title, "Owner" ) && contactable.contact.birthday < "01-Jan-1980" || str1.evaluate( contactable.contact.country, "USA" ) && contactable.contact.leadSourceIdOverride == "12":</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">[Error: Comparison operation requires compatible types. Found class java.util.Date and class java.lang.String]</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">[Near : {... ) && contactable.contact.leadSourceIdOverride == "12" ....}]</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"> ^</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">[Line: 8, Column: 32] : [Rule name='Test Rule']</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Some things that cause the error to go away:</p><ul><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; ">Removing the offending clause: contactable.contact.birthday < "01-Jan-1980"</span></li><li>Changing the || to an && </li></ul><div>I'm at a loss and would love some help. Even if I knew which class was raising the exception would help, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Eric</div></p></div></body></html>