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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Davide,<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'>Thanks for your responses and for re-opening the JIRA.<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'>Although I get warnings about accessing FieldDefinition and AnnotationDefinition due to restriction on the drools-core-5.4.0.Final.jar library, it does work to cast FactField to FieldDefinition and use its methods to access the AnnotationDefinitions.<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'>Regarding your other suggestion, I was able to use Java reflection to get the FactType annotations (factType.getFactClass().getAnnotations()). However, I was not able to use Java reflection to obtain the field annotations. I successfully used factType.getFactClass().getDeclaredFields() to get the Fields. But then using field.getClass().getAnnotations() on each Field did not return any annotations. Using the debugger, I can see that the factType.definedClass.declaredFields.referent[0].annotations variable is not null and is null for referent[1] and referent[2] where each referent is a Field. I do not know how to interpret the contents of the Field’s annotations variable, but at least it is not null for the first Field which seems correct since I have a DRL field annotation on the first field and not on the next 2. <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'>Thanks again for your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phil<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><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"'> Davide Sottara [via Drools] [mailto:<a href="/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4019386&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">[hidden email]</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> Courtney, Phil<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Accessing FactField Metadata<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Phil, <br>also consider that getDefinedClass().getAnnotations() will give you the >>JAVA<< annotations. <br>Any custom Drools metadata which is not mapped into a java annotation (e.g. @role) will not <br>be visible from there. <o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#CCCCCC' align=center></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#444444'>If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#444444'><a href="" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">click here</a>.<br><a href="http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external"><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>NAML</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div>
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