Hi Michael,

We are experiencing the same issue.  We have had to put our functions in a different .drl to get around this for now.  If it helps any, this was working ok in version 4.0.7, and broke when we went to 5.0.1.

Thanks,

Steve Ronderos

rules-dev-bounces@lists.jboss.org wrote on 10/11/2009 11:52:04 PM:

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> [rules-dev] MVEL in functions?
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> Michael Neale
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> 10/11/2009 11:53 PM
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> Hey is mvel in functions broken? I have a distant memory of something
> along these lines. I was just trying something like:
>
> package jboss.cloud
>
> dialect "mvel"
>
>
> #trying to get functions working...
> rule "something"
>     when
>         s: SimpleFact(id == 42, name == "michael")
>     then
>         System.out.println("hello");
> end
>
> function String doSomething() {
>  return "hey";
> }
>
> And I get:
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>    at org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.mvel.MVELDialect.compile
> (MVELDialect.java:510)
>    at org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.mvel.MVELDialect.addFunction
> (MVELDialect.java:338)
>    at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addFunction(PackageBuilder.java:1104)
>    at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addPackage(PackageBuilder.java:626)
>    at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addPackageFromDrl
> (PackageBuilder.java:290)
>    at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addKnowledgeResource
> (PackageBuilder.java:488)
>    at org.drools.builder.impl.KnowledgeBuilderImpl.add
> (KnowledgeBuilderImpl.java:25)
>
> (haven't tried trunk) - anyone else seen this?
> removing the dialect "mvel" at the package level at it is fine.
>
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