position of "dialect 'mvel'" affects function and/or rule parsing (NPE) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBRULES-3089 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-3089 Project: Drools Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public (Everyone can see) Components: drools-compiler (expert) Affects Versions: 5.2.0.CR1 Reporter: Wolfgang Laun Assignee: Mark Proctor Fix For: 5.2.0 The DRL shown below does not compile. Exchanging dialect and function fixes the problem, as does removing the dialect stmt. entirely. dialect "mvel" function boolean ping( String x ){ System.out.println( "ping " + x ); return true; } rule exa4 when eval( ping("A") ) then System.out.println( "Hello world!" ); end Unable to Analyse Expression ping("A"): [Error: unable to resolve method using strict-mode: java.lang.Object.ping(java.lang.String)] [Near : {... ping("A") ....}] ^ [Line: 1, Column: 1] : [Rule name='exa4'] Unable to build expression for 'eval':null 'ping("A")' : [Rule name='exa4'] java.lang.NullPointerException -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira