I am surprised, all the more so because (cf. Expert):
"Each rule has a salience attribute that can be assigned an integer *number
*,"
This does not event remotely indicate that you can use an
*expression*involving bound variables.
If it isn't documented, nobody will use it. Being in front of the when part
where the bindings occur, it is counter-intuitive to other bound variable
references, and so I didn't even try.
However: good to know, and thanks!
-W
On 26 August 2010 15:21, Edson Tirelli <tirelli(a)post.com> wrote:
Wolfgang,
Not sure I understand what you mean, but Drools supports dynamic
salience:
rule "fire in rank order 1,2,..."
salience( -$rank )
when
Element( $rank : rank,... )
...
then
...
end
Edson
2010/8/26 Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun(a)gmail.com>
>
> Just FYI, but who knows ;-)
>
> Our proprietary vintage RBS has a feature is (admittedly) rarely used
> but could come in handy, every now and then.
>
> Given this class
>
> class Element {
> int rank; // rank > 0
> }
>
> and to fire a rule in ascending rank order, you can write (using
> modified Drools syntax)
>
> rule "fire in rank order 1,2,..."
> when
> Element( $rank : rank,... )
> // ...
> salience -$rank ### <=
> then
> // ...
> end
>
> The dynamically set salience does all the work. (Of course, you can
> achieve the same order
> in Drools easily enough.)
>
> This is possible since salience is a value that must be carried over
> into the activation.
> There is at least one other rule attribute that shares this property,
> but I'm not sure
> whether anything useful can be done with dynamic agenda groups.
>
> Cheers
> -W
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