Re: [rules-users] top n - accumulate function parameters

Accumulate functions support only a single parameter, as they are defined now, but would be great if someone can come up with a good way of adding support to variable number of parameters. Having said that, you can probably try a quick trick for your rules. The way accumulate function works now is that it takes an expression as the parameter, evaluate the expression and sends the result of the expression to the accumulate function implementation. Example: ... accumulate( Cheese( $price: price ), sum( $price * 10 ) ) So the engine will calculate $price * 10 and will send the result into the function implementation. So, if you are using MVEL dialect, you can use the list creation simplified syntax to pass multiple parameters to the function. I never tried, but should work: rule xyz dialect "mvel" when ... ... accumlate( Cheese( $price : price ), averageTop( [10, $price ] ) ) then ... end The syntax [ ] will create a list in MVEL and will pass it into the method call: public void accumulate(Serializable context, Object value) { List values = (List) value; ... } Problem is you only have the parameters available in the accumulate() and reverse() call... you don't have access to them in the init() and result() call. If you want to improve this, you are more than welcome! []s Edson 2008/11/11 Evans, Jess <JEvans(a)collegeboard.org&gt; -- Edson Tirelli JBoss Drools Core Development JBoss, a division of Red Hat @ www.jboss.com