[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBRULES-647) RuleModel to populate Descr for rendering to DRL

[ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-647?page=comments#action_12360963 ] Michael Neale commented on JBRULES-647: --------------------------------------- OK, I woke up this morning in a panic (I tend to wake up like that - I hate the clarity and perspective that waking up brings): What about date literals? Dates are also kind of a special case I think. On the LHS in drl dates are pretty easy, we just slap quotes around them and the compiler takes care of it. But on the RHS we need to new java.util.Date() - although MVEL may take care of it. Some general questions I am not sure about (regarding the RHS): * Do we allow a field to be set to a bound variable? * We can deal with string/number literals, but what about dates? * Say we want to set a field to a calculation, for a non String, this should work as it is now right? so we have a "value" of "x *3.0 - someVar" then that will be: boundVariable.setSomeField(x * 3.0 - someVar) UNLESS it is a string, in which case it will try to wrap quotes around it (which is not really a problem, as you generall don't do calculations with a string). I guess my original question remains: shoudl we ask the user to classify if they are doing a literal, a formula or choosing from a list of variables? or is that overkill and unhelpful? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira