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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>This may be a very basic question, but I'm using drools 5.1.1 and when I invoke a stateful session and that session ends I receive back all of the facts that were created during that session and I translate those into an EDI transaction. As an example I might have a few objects of types "2700*LX,2750* N1,2750* REF, and 2750*DTP". I know my rules fired create objects like:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>LX*1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>N1*75*CMSEC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>REF*17*A<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>DTP*007*D8*20140114<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>LX*2<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>N1*75*STATUS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>REF*17*AFTNM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>DTP*007*D8*20140114<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Each of these lines is an object of the type I mentioned above.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>My task is to make sure that the different object types "stick" together when I put them in the .x12 file so that they are formatted above.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>What I do internally is I keep track that I have two of each of these objects, but I don't know if there is some type of timestamp that is on them that I could keep the first LX, N1, REF, DTP together or not.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>In one example I have a rule that inserts them in the order you see, yes, it literally inserts 8 objects/facts into memory. And I need to know the order they were inserted so that I can properly form a file out of them on the backend.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Here’s how I grab the objects and factHandle list. Is there a method that might help me know what object was created by what rule and how I might keep facts created in a rule together?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> // Get handle to all objects coming from drools<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Collection<FactHandle> handleList = null;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> try<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> handleList = ksession.getFactHandles();<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> }<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> catch (Exception e)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> _log.error("kSession get Fact Handles. Error=" + e.getMessage());<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> }<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'>// Build the List with the results from drools - objectOutList<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Object anObject;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> TranslatedObjectImpl aTranslatedObject;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> FactHandle fH;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> for (Iterator<FactHandle> it = handleList.iterator(); it.hasNext();)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> fH = (FactHandle) it.next();<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> anObject = (Object) ksession.getObject(fH);<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> if (anObject instanceof String)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> // prt("Ignoring back from drool the String object " + anObject.getClass().getCustomerLogName());<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> }<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> else if (anObject instanceof TranslatedObjectImpl)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> aTranslatedObject = (TranslatedObjectImpl) ksession.getObject(fH);<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> objectOutList.add(aTranslatedObject);<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> if (_log.isTraceEnabled()) _log.trace("Back from drools, translated object " + anObject.getClass().getSimpleName());<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> }<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> else<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> objectOutList.add(ksession.getObject(fH));<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> if (_log.isTraceEnabled()) _log.trace("Back from drools, found object " + anObject.getClass().getSimpleName());<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> }<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> }<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> if (_log.isDebugEnabled()) _log.debug("Done with Transformer. Total number of Drools object = " + objectOutList.size());<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> ksession.dispose();<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Any thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Dean<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>