Design queries on use of Drools
by David Godfrey
Hi,
I am working on a prototype of integrating our existing application with
Drools, and would appreciate some advice/thoughts on my current design.
We have an application through which messages flow, and at certain points in
the process flow of these messages, business logic is encapsulated using
Java-based exits. I want to replace these exits with business rules, and
allow users to maintain the rules through Guvnor.
I have created a fact model, and also a simple Java class to invoke the
RuleAgent and execute my rules. At each processing step in my application, I
would like to expose a different set of rules, so I have defined a package
for each step, and assigned rules to the relevant package. At runtime, I am
hoping I can then just expose my model class to the relevant set of rules
for the processing step in question.
Does this sound like the best way to use Drools to solve the problem? Any
other considerations?
Also, can anyone point me in the direction of some useful information about
"functions" in the context of Guvnor? I would like to allow users to define
rules using the Guided Rules editor to make decisions about dates, but the
options available to me in the LHS of the editor don't seem to be rich
enough, I am assuming I can create a function to wrap some extra processing
logic which users can include in their rules? I can't find any good examples
of how to define/write such functions though.
Many thanks,
Dave
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16 years, 10 months
Does evaluating two facts of same type in one when condition works?
by balachandra maddina
Hi There,
Im wondering weather the Following rule would work properly,
rule "abc"
when
a : PlaceHolder(value == 1)
b : PlaceHolder(value == 2)
then
System.out.println("print");
.........................
workingmemory.insert(placeholderobject1);
workingmemory.insert(placeholderobject2);
workingmemory.fireAllRules();
..........................................
when i tried, the code is working fine, but How can the rule here is able to
diffirentiate between two facts of same type? any help would be very much
appriciated.
Thank you,
bala.
16 years, 10 months
classnotfound\classdefnotfound
by Wishing Carebear
Hello:
I have the drools5 embedded in an ear. When running aginst JBoss 5 gets the
following classnotfound exception but it works okay with websphere and
pramati application server. Wondering if someone could throw some pointers.
Please note that drools-compiler, drools-core etc are all in the ear and
added to the manifest.
Thanks,
cabear
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/drools/base/extractors/BaseObjectClassFieldReader
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)
at
org.drools.base.ClassFieldAccessorCache$ByteArrayClassLoader.defineClass(ClassFieldAccessorCache.java:367)
at
org.drools.base.ClassFieldAccessorFactory.getClassFieldReader(ClassFieldAccessorFactory.java:135)
at
org.drools.base.ClassFieldAccessorCache$CacheEntry.getReadAccessor(ClassFieldAccessorCache.java:315)
at
org.drools.base.ClassFieldAccessorCache.getReadAcessor(ClassFieldAccessorCache.java:245)
at
org.drools.base.ClassFieldAccessorStore.wire(ClassFieldAccessorStore.java:379)
at
org.drools.base.ClassFieldAccessorStore.getReader(ClassFieldAccessorStore.java:97)
at
org.drools.base.ClassFieldAccessorStore.getReader(ClassFieldAccessorStore.java:74)
at
org.drools.rule.builder.PatternBuilder.getFieldReadAccessor(PatternBuilder.java:1031)
at org.drools.rule.builder.PatternBuilder.build(PatternBuilder.java:560)
at
org.drools.rule.builder.PatternBuilder.buildConstraint(PatternBuilder.java:235)
at org.drools.rule.builder.PatternBuilder.build(PatternBuilder.java:196)
at org.drools.rule.builder.PatternBuilder.build(PatternBuilder.java:104)
at
org.drools.rule.builder.GroupElementBuilder.build(GroupElementBuilder.java:69)
at org.drools.rule.builder.RuleBuilder.build(RuleBuilder.java:68)
at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addRule(PackageBuilder.java:1159)
at
org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addPackage(PackageBuilder.java:649)
at
org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addPackageFromDrl(PackageBuilder.java:290)
at
org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addKnowledgeResource(PackageBuilder.java:488)
16 years, 10 months
Creating custom selectors using the "category" property for deploying certain rules in guvnor
by Premkumar Stephen
Hello everyone,
I am trying to create a custom selector, based on certain properties such as
"categories" (primary property) and others such as status and author.
from the examples in selectors.properties, I could not see a way to create
using categories. In that file, some of the field described are
statusDescription, lastModified, creator, etc
I was trying to find the complete list of all fields that could be used to
filter the rules.
I dug into the code and came across "categoryReference" in
VersionableItem.java. Is this the variable that stores the category?
Since a rule can have multiple categories, how does this pan out? Is this a
Collection?
Also, where does the string "statusDescription" get tied in to the status of
a rule? This one throws me off, since it is a valid field, but I cannot
understand how it is being set.
If any of you could share examples where you have done custom selectors
either in java or in drl, that would be awesome.
Thanks,
Prem
16 years, 10 months
How execute a Single rule from rule file or rule package
by Amila Silva
hi everyone,
I have a requirement like execute a single rule from set of loaded rule
files or single rule from single drl file.
when i execute fireAllRules() it executes the all the rules in the files.
even that overloaded method that take int as agrs also
seems doesnt help much.
let me know if any body gone thru this kind of senarios.
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16 years, 10 months
Drools 5 - how create Logger for Template File based rules?
by chris＠twc
I'm trying to figure out how I can create a Logger to log rule activations
for my Template File code. I followed the examples to successfully create a
Logger for DRL and Decision Table examples. Apparently, to create a Logger,
the KnowledgeRuntimeLoggerFactory methods take a
KnowledgeRuntimeEventManager type, which StatefulKnowledgeSession
implements. But, for the Template File examples, the StatefulSession from
the "unstable" drools-core *does not* implement this interface. SEE the code
examples below - how do I create a Logger for my Template File code?
//#### DRL FILE & EXCEL FILE EXAMPLE FOR CREATING A SESSION AND FIRING THE
RULES:
//#### CREATING A RULES LOGGER WORKS
// populate working memory
KnowledgeBuilder kbuilder = KnowledgeBuilderFactory.newKnowledgeBuilder();
kbuilder.add(...[DRL or DTABLE resources]...);
KnowledgeBase knowledgeBase = KnowledgeBaseFactory.newKnowledgeBase();
knowledgeBase.addKnowledgePackages(kbuilder.getKnowledgePackages());
// create session
StatefulKnowledgeSession rulesSession =
knowledgeBase.newStatefulKnowledgeSession();
KnowledgeRuntimeLogger rulesLogger =
KnowledgeRuntimeLoggerFactory.newConsoleLogger(rulesSession);
//<<CREATE LOGGER!
FactHandle factHandle = rulesSession.insert(myFact);
// fire the rules
rulesSession.fireAllRules();
//#### TEMPLATE FILE EXAMPLE FOR CREATING A SESSION AND FIRING THE RULES:
//#### CREATING A RULES LOGGER DOES NOT COMPILE!
// populate working memory
ExternalSpreadsheetCompiler converter = new ExternalSpreadsheetCompiler();
InputStream spreadsheetStream = ...
InputStream templateFileStream = ...
String drl = converter.compile(spreadsheetStream, templateFileStream, 3, 3);
PackageBuilder builder = new PackageBuilder();
builder.addPackageFromDrl(new StringReader(drl));
RuleBase templateRuleBase = RuleBaseFactory.newRuleBase();
templateRuleBase.addPackage(builder.getPackage());
// create session
StatefulSession rulesSession = templateRuleBase.newStatefulSession();
KnowledgeRuntimeLogger rulesLogger =
KnowledgeRuntimeLoggerFactory.newConsoleLogger(rulesSession);//<<DOESN'T
COMPILE!
FactHandle factHandle = rulesSession.insert(myFact);
// fire the rules
rulesSession.fireAllRules();
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16 years, 10 months
the n best solutions on a very simple test case
by Laurent Michenaud
Hi,
We have implemented a best score recaller to keep
the n best found solutions.
It seems to be ok except on very simple
test cases :
- On the first step, 4 moves are tested. They all
return a feseable score. The best one is kept and
sent to the solution recaller.
- After each of these moves, no other moves are
possible and the other solutions of the first step
are not sent to the solution recaller.
So, in our solution recaller, we have only one
solution.
Thanks for your help
Michenux.
16 years, 10 months
Drools 4.0.7 OSGi version not working
by Flavius Vespasianus
Hi,
I am still trying to setup Drools as OSGi classes. I have downloaded and
installed following plugins:
com.springsource.com.thoughtworks.xstream-1.3.0.jar
com.springsource.javax.rules-1.1.0.jar
com.springsource.javax.xml.stream-1.0.1.jar
com.springsource.jxl-2.6.6.jar
com.springsource.org.apache.jasper.org.eclipse.jdt-6.0.16.jar
com.springsource.org.codehaus.janino-2.5.15.jar
com.springsource.org.drools.compiler-4.0.7.jar
com.springsource.org.drools.decisiontable-4.0.7.jar
com.springsource.org.drools.jsr94-4.0.7.jar
com.springsource.org.drools-4.0.7.jar
com.springsource.org.mvel-1.3.5.jar
com.springsource.org.xmlpull-1.1.3.4-O.jar
com.springsource.org.xmlpull-1.1.4.jar
But when I try to run it, it still says:
Bundle update(a)plugins/com.springsource.org.drools.compiler-4.0.7.jar was
not resolved.
Missing imported package
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.classfmt_[3.2.3,4.0.0).
Missing imported package org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler_[3.2.3,4.0.0).
Missing imported package
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.problem_[3.2.3,4.0.0).
Missing imported package
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.env_[3.2.3,4.0.0).
Missing imported package org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler_[3.2.3,4.0.0).
That's weird - the packages are in org.eclipse.jdt.core plugin and I
have the version 3.3.3, so it should find it. I have tried it also with
version 3.2.3 and 3.4.2 but no success. The target platform should be
configured correctly even when I try to use two versions at the same
moment it complains.
Can anybody help me, please? I am running out of time for my thesis...
Flavius
16 years, 10 months
a technical error occurred. Please contact a system administrator.
by VÅM§Ï ®
Hi,
After uploading the jar file,and clicking on *"save and validate
configuration* " returning an error called "technical error occurred".In the
jar file i have many classes in different packages.i m unable to find which
causes this problem.
anyone please let me know the solution.
regards,
Vamsi Krishna.Kavuri.
16 years, 10 months
