Hi all

I am trying to write a custom package builder in order to create rules programmatically.

The most important feature are simple tests against object attributes like:

“if (position.getValue() > 100) then”

In Drools 3 I managed this the following way:

LiteralDescr literalDescr = new LiteralDescr("value", ">", "100");

// define what class the rule refers to

ColumnDescr columnDescr = new ColumnDescr("com.sample.bl.Position", "p");

columnDescr.addDescr(literalDescr);

// assemble condition

AndDescr andDescr = new AndDescr();

andDescr.addDescr(columnDescr);

ruleDescriptor.setLhs(andDescr);

packageDescriptor.addRule(ruleDescriptor);

Upgrading to Drools 4 the above code breaks and in search of a replacement for ColumnDescr I stumbled across a FieldConstraintDescr which seems appropriate according to the Pattern Entity Relationship Diagram (Figure 6.11) of paragraph 6.5 in the documentation.

Using it throws the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" org.drools.RuntimeDroolsException: BUG: no builder found for descriptor class class org.drools.lang.descr.FieldConstraintDescr

      at org.drools.rule.builder.GroupElementBuilder.build(GroupElementBuilder.java:77)

      at org.drools.rule.builder.RuleBuilder.build(RuleBuilder.java:53)

      at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addRule(PackageBuilder.java:420)

      at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addPackage(PackageBuilder.java:283)

What does that mean? Did I misunderstand the concept? Is there an easier way to achieve what I want?

I appreciate any hints.

Thanks and regards,

Andreas