Documentation error or Bug related to parsing braces({, }) in rhs of DSL sentence definitions --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBRULES-1953 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBRULES-1953 Project: JBoss Drools Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public (Everyone can see) Components: drools-compiler, drools-docs Affects Versions: 5.0.0.M5 Reporter: Shahad Ahmed Assignee: Mark Proctor There appears to be an error in the Drools documentation concerning the use of braces { and } on the right-hand side (RHS) of a DSL definition, or the documentation is correct and there is a bug in parsing of the RHS of DSL sentences In section 6.7.2 Editing and managing a DSL, the documentation states that you can use { and } on the RHS of a DSL on its own, not just to mark tokens, and immediately gives an example of a valid RHS: if (foo) {doSomething(); } I know this worked in Drools 4, but it doesn't seem to work in Drools 5.0M5. To get this to work in Drools 5 you need to escape the use of { and }on the RHS of a DSL as follows, otherwise you get a parse error. if (foo) \{doSomething(); \} For example, consider the following DSL and rule where the consequence in the DSL does not use an escape of the RHS to escape the { and } surrounding the println method. [condition][]Always valid=eval(1==1) [consequence][]Test value {value}=if ({value} == 1) {System.out.println("value was " + "{value}") ;} package com.dsl.test expander test.dsl rule "DSL Rule Test" when Always valid then Test value 1 end The example above thrown the following error in eclipse: [7] Unable to expand: Test value 1 However if I escape the braces i.e.\{ on the RHS of the consequence in the DSL as follows then it all works. [consequence][]Test value {value}=if ({value} == 1) \{System.out.println("value was " + "{value}") ;\} One funny thing I noticed is that even though the eclipse plugin reports an error, if you select the DRL viewer tab to see the translation in eclipse, then the translation appears to be okay! In summary, I'm not sure if the parsing of DSL's has changed deliberately and only the documentation is incorrect, or whether this is a bug in the DSL parsing introduced in Drools 5. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira