Functionality/Performance Test Results
by Robert Crawford
Our users are asking to be able to specify custom validations in our
application. I've been undecided whether to use a rules engine or write
our own dynamic validation code.
While it's admittedly still in the "toy problem" stage, I tried using
drools in place of some existing hand-coded validation. The drools version
took the SAME amount of time.
Then I added another rule, to simulate the types of validations our users
want to add, and re-ran.
Again, SAME time.
Admittedly, database access was the big time consumer -- average of 6
seconds per unit of work, and about 15 units of work per test -- but it
was the same for both the rules-based and hand-coded validations.
Excellent work, everyone! You've made my life much, much simpler!
19 years
Storing temp results in eval block
by cfili
Hi,
I have just started using Drools 4.0 and I am very pleased so far. I do
have one question regarding storage of a result from within an eval block.
For example if I have the following eval in my rule:
eval((value1 /value2) > 0.5)
Is there a way to store the result of value1/value2 in a temp variable so
that it can be accessed in the "then" part of my rule? I want to avoid
recomputing the result again in the then section.
Thanks.
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19 years
collect return random order
by Manukyan, Sergey
Folks,
When using collect on List of items with some filter (criteria), I need
to have result in the same order as it was received:
F.e. I have a list of suppliers :
List() : Supplier("FIRST", Status.ACTIVE), Supplier("SECOND",
Status.INACTIVE), Supplier("THIRD", Status.INACTIVE)
And I need to find first INACTIVE supplier, so it must be SECOND
supplier.
So doing the following :
When
$l : List() // list of suppliers
$inactive_supp : ArrayList() from collect Supplier(status ==
Status.INACTIVE) from $l
Then
System.out.println($l); // prints FIRST, SECOND, THIRD
System.out.println($inactive_supp); // prints THIRD, SECOND ....
Instead of SECOND , THIRD
So I am getting THIRD supplier instead of SECOND as the result..
Please advise if it is a bug .., or there is another way of doing
that...
Thanks,
-Sergey
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19 years
NoClassDefFoundError for
by Barfield Steve
Jesse/Fernando/anybody
Do you know if this problem has been resolved - I am getting the same
problem from a web service running on BEA weblogic
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19 years
How to catch Exceptions when firing rules
by Yang Song
Hi,
Anyone knows how to catch the exception when firing the rules?
I wrapped the session.fireAllRules() method using try...catch, however it
doesn't work: when someone wrote bad code in the rule's action part, the
Exception will be thrown and printed to the stderr, and this will make the
rule engine stop working -- the try...catch outside doesn't help anything.
If the exception thrown from the rule's action part can be caught
externally, the system can be protected from interrupting Exception.
try {
_log.debug("Firing rules in : " + getName());
session.fireAllRules();
} catch (Exception e) {
_log.info("Error when firing rules: ", e);
}
Thanks,
Yang
19 years
Problems with Global Date Object
by Brian Enderle
I would like to create a new Date object representing the current date and use
that as a global. I have tried the following:
(in Java code)
setGlobal("todaysDate", new Date());
(in rules file)
global java.utils.Date todaysDate;
rule "LevelTwo: Associate birth date must be before today"
when
Associate(birthDt <= todaysDate)
then
System.out.println("Birth Date must be before today");
end
with this code I get the following error:
Error creating bean with name 'ruleBase' defined in class path resource
[spring-beans.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is
org.drools.rule.InvalidRulePackage: org.drools.compiler.GlobalError@b51c29
Caused by: org.drools.rule.InvalidRulePackage:
org.drools.compiler.GlobalError@b51c29
at org.drools.rule.Package.checkValidity(Package.java:408)
at org.drools.common.AbstractRuleBase.addPackage
(AbstractRuleBase.java:288)
at com.sample.RuleBaseBeanFactory.afterPropertiesSet
(RuleBaseBeanFactory.java:63)
etc...
I have also tried to set a constant date with the date format that I found in
the Drools docs (dd-MMM-yyyy) like such:
statefulSession.setGlobal("todaysDate", "10-Jul-1974");
and I get the same error message.
The rule does work correctly when I hard code a value in place of todaysDate
within the rule so I know the rule works (but obviously that is not an option).
What is the proper way to set a Date global? Is it possible this is a bug?
Thanks in advance,
Brian Enderle
19 years
Programmatically get packages/snapshot list from JBRMS
by Erin
Hi guys,
The application we're developing requires that we be able to
programmatically get a list of all the Snapshots currently deployed on the
JBRMS.
The requirement is kinda like this -
(i) User A creates several rule packages and deploys snapshots of them
through the JBRMS.
(ii )User B, utilizing our application, should get a listing of all the
rules currently available from JBRMS (categorized in some manner) and choose
which rules should be executed.
(iii) Whenver User A, updates/deploys a package, it should reflect in User
B's application.
Does the JBRMS currently support this, along with some means of
categorization? If not, what would you suggest as the best way to emulate
this feature? (We're adamant on using JBRMS, it's too good!).
Thanks in advance (And apologies too, if the question is dumb :o)
-erin
19 years
Friendly reminder: Drools Puzzle, Round 2. Already 7 solutions...
by Dr. Gernot Starke
Just as a friendly reminder: Tell all your friends and colleagues,
spread word in your blogs... about this cool-contest!!
btw.: I received already seven (7) cute solutions) - some even in
different programming languages. We still don't have
a Ruby solutions, and your friends from the Erlang/Haskell/PHP
department might join in :-)
Have a nice weekend,
Gernot
==== repeated message follows: =====================
Hi JBoss-Drools-folks,
round 2 of our (not-already) famous (enough) puzzle contest just
opened. Until September 14th you
can send your solutions to droolspuzzle(a)gmail.com
The riddle itself has been posted in the JBoss-Drools-Blog
http://blog.athico.com/2007/08/drools-puzzle-round-2-familiy-puzzle.html
For you non-bloggers:
=====================================
Difficulty level: Settler
* Three men, Abel, Locker and Snyder are married to Edith, Doris
and Luisa, but not necessarily in this order.
* Each couple has one son.
* The sons are called Albert, Henry and Victor.
* Snyder is nor married to Luisa, neither is he Henry's father.
* Edit is not married to Locker and not Albert's mother.
* If Alberts father is either Locker or Snyder, then Luisa is
Victor's mother.
* If Luisa is married to Locker, then Doris is not Albert's mother.
Who is married to whom and what are their sons called?
Taken from the German book "Denken als Spiel" by Willy Hochkeppel,
1973 (Thinking as a Game).
=====================================
Rules of the Contest:
http://blog.athico.com/2007/08/drools-puzzles.html
We're looking forward to your contributions -
let the rules rule...
greetings from Cologne,
Gernot
Dr. Gernot Starke
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19 years
String evaluation
by Saleem Lakhani
Hi,
Can we write something like this in Drools 3.0 ?
[when]The Roof is not NA=Object(roof != "" )
where roof is some String object.
Saleem Lakhani
19 years
