Ruleflow diagram customization
by J Michael Dean
Playing around on Macintosh I selected Drools preference to allow customization of nodes in Drools rule flows, and after restart, the properties view then had a color attribute. Changing the color attribute has no effect on the diagram, but then I received an error during execution indicating that the color attribute was not permitted. I manually deleted this attribute and all was the same as before.
Then I checked it out on a Windows machine which refused to open the rule flow because there was no toType on the constraints. (The Mac did not care). Went back and reproduced the behavior, which is that allowing customization and making a change in the color eliminated ALL references for toType="DROOLS_DEFAULT" in the rf file, and on the Windows platform, this was not readable.
Am sure that this is a "feature in evolution" but perhaps the preferences dialog should be altered so as to not allow the user to commit this crime.
J Michael Dean
mdean77(a)comcast.net
16 years, 4 months
How to query a stream of events with a dynamic event pattern
by Malinda Kaushalye
Dear All,
I have been trying to figure our the best strategy to query a stream of events.
Basically what I need to do is match a given event pattern based on the events injected to the working memory so far.
Event pattern is a simple expressions like (EventId=001 && EventId=023 ). I need to support AND, OR, XOR relationships of two pr more events.
e.g. (EventId=001 && EventId=023 ) || EventId=013
All the input events are of the same type but can be distinguished based on its Id attribute. They keep coming from a event source.
The event patterns are formed dynamically. These dynamic event patterns are evaluated like a query against the events so far recorded in working memory.
Im sure this is is usual requirement and there is a simple answer from Drools fusion. But so far failed to do it and now Im investigating drools template too.
If anyone has done this earlier OR know a solution for this I highly appreciate if you can share it.
Cheers,
Malinda
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16 years, 4 months
Event Streams
by Glenn Macgregor
Hi All...again,
I am slowly working through my testcase and it seems to be going OK so far. My question is about stored events, @expires set to 1d for instance, and processing rules.
declare ParameterUpdateEvent
@role(event)
@expires(1d1h)
End
rule "Print Average"
no-loop true
when
ParameterUpdateEvent($paramName : name, $newParamValue : value)
from entry-point "ParamUpdateStream"
$param : Parameter(name == $paramName)
$averageUpdateValue : Number(doubleValue >= 1) from accumulate(
ParameterUpdateEvent(name == $paramName, $value : value)
over window:time(15m)
from entry-point "ParamUpdateStream", average($value))
#Number($averageUpdateValue : doubleValue)
then
#System.out.println("Here");
System.out.println("Average update value for " + $paramName +
" = " + $averageUpdateValue);
end
Inside my unit test I add a single event to the stream and this rule fires and prints the average value...which is the value of the last update because it is the first event is has seen. I send in another event with a different value and this rule fires twice and prints the correct value both times. From what I can gather this is due to the fact that there are 2 events on the stream at this point even though I have processed one already.
What is the best practice to handling only the last event on a stream? Since the documentation states that events should be immutable I can't add a processed flag.
Thank you for all your support thus far.
Glenn
16 years, 4 months
JMS/Pipeline how to get the result out of it?
by jschmied
Hi!
I'm implementing a architecture where Drools is behind a Oracle Message
Queue.
I have already done a OracleJmsMessenger because I use it without a
Appserver (JNDI/Context) and I'd like to use the Oracle XMLType as message
payload. (Dosn't work with vanilla JMS)
My pipeline consists of:
PipelineFactory.newStatefulKnowledgeSessionPipeline(ksession);
Action unwrapObjectStage = new OracleJmsUnwrapAdtObject();
PipelineFactory.newJaxbFromXmlTransformer(unmarshaller);
PipelineFactory.newStatefulKnowledgeSessionInsert();
Action resultHandlerStage = PipelineFactory.newExecuteResultHandler();
Service messenger = new OracleJmsMessenger(pipeline, ds, factory);
messenger.start();
new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
ksession.fireUntilHalt();
messenger.stop();
System.out.println("#### READY####");
}}).start();
I can send messages throu the queue and the they go into the KB and they are
processed.
But: how can I get the result out of the KB? The ExecuteResultHandler gets
executed immediately after the message in the KB and it gets a Map with the
current Objects from my Workspace. The KB is still fireing rules...
How can I retrive the result of the processing and where from do I know
which result is from which input message? Everything runs within one
seeesion...
Thanks
Jürgen
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16 years, 4 months
Drools / JBoss Rules in the medical field
by Nathan Bell
We are in the early stages of a project that will be using several
facets of the Drools platform. Based on our current research and
prototyping work we know we will use at least Drools Expert, and may end
up using all four components. I'm new to this user group, so I apologize
if the questions I am about to ask have been asked (and answered)
before. I did spend some time searching for these answers before I sent
this email if that helps any. J
1. I could not locate a forum for the Drools community. There seem
to be forums for a number of things here (http://community.jboss.org/),
but no forum for Drools. Am I missing something?
2. I spent some time today reading articles about the use of "Rule
Engines"/"Expert Systems"/"Complex Event Processing"/"CEP" in
healthcare. I found a few things, but I would like to find more data
about what people are actually doing in the medical/clinical field with
rules engines & CEP. Does anyone have any resources they can point me
to? Things like white papers, case studies, and research would be great.
Of particular interest to me are recent articles and information about
the use of Drools to build event driven systems for the healthcare
industry.
Thank You,
Nathan Bell
16 years, 4 months
Events facts in process constraints
by paulB
Hi,
I am starting out with RuleFlow this week. I have created a flow that uses
rules I had created in the past. The issue began when I tried to define a
Rule Constraint for a Split. The Fact I am referencing in that Rule
Constraint is defined as an Event fact in my rules file. When I attempt to
insert the fact into WorkingMemory (using ksession.insert(object);), I get
the error below. It appears to me that the fact is being inserted as
"default" fact, but somewhere along the chain it's interpreted as an Event
fact? Is this conflicts in the process' definition of the fact to the rule's
definition? Did I miss some tie-up between the rules and process? Is there
a way in the process to declare a fact as an event? Thanks!
Using Drools 5.0
RULE FILE SNIPPET:
package PostEventProcessor
...
import com.company.TrxQueueIn
...
declare TrxQueueIn
@role( event )
@timestamp( releaseTime )
end
...
RULE FLOW SNIPPET:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<process xmlns="http://drools.org/drools-5.0/process"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xs:schemaLocation="http://drools.org/drools-5.0/process
drools-processes-5.0.xsd"
type="RuleFlow" name="Post Event Processor post event"
id="PEPpostEvent" package-name="PostEventProcessor" >
<header>
<imports>
<import name="org.drools.runtime.process.WorkflowProcessInstance" />
<import name="com.company.TrxSurvey" />
<import name="com.company.TrxQueueIn" />
</imports>
<variables>
<variable name="SurveyComplete" >
<type
name="org.drools.process.core.datatype.impl.type.BooleanDataType" />
<value>false</value>
</variable>
<variable name="MaxAttempts" >
<type
name="org.drools.process.core.datatype.impl.type.BooleanDataType" />
<value>false</value>
</variable>
<variable name="trxDetail" >
<type
name="org.drools.process.core.datatype.impl.type.ObjectDataType"
className="com.sironahealth.database.intelliview.domain.TrxDetail" />
</variable>
<variable name="SurveyFlow" >
<type
name="org.drools.process.core.datatype.impl.type.StringDataType" />
</variable>
</variables>
</header>
<nodes>
<start id="1" name="Start" x="137" y="16" width="80" height="40" />
<ruleSet id="2" name="Max Attempts" x="137" y="88" width="80"
height="40" ruleFlowGroup="MaxAttempts" />
<ruleSet id="3" name="Reason Actions" x="54" y="232" width="117"
height="40" ruleFlowGroup="ReasonActions" />
<subProcess id="4" name="Next Survey" x="406" y="585" width="129"
height="40" processId="PEPSurevysBIO" >
<mapping type="in" from="trxDetail" to="trxDetail" />
</subProcess>
<split id="5" name="Survey Completed?" x="211" y="392" width="141"
height="40" type="2" >
<constraints>
<!-- THIS IS THE CONSTRAINT THAT GIVES ME PROBLEMS - SECOND LINE OF
RULE -->
<constraint toNodeId="10" toType="DROOLS_DEFAULT" name="Survey
Completed" priority="1" type="rule" dialect="mvel" >processInstance :
WorkflowProcessInstance()
TrxQueueIn(queueStatus == "CLO", trxDetail ==
(processInstance.getVariable("trxDetail"))) </constraint>
<constraint toNodeId="6" toType="DROOLS_DEFAULT" name="Survey Not
Complete" priority="2" type="rule" dialect="mvel" >eval(true)</constraint>
</constraints>
</split>
<end id="6" name="End" x="182" y="503" width="80" height="40" />
<end id="7" name="End" x="430" y="657" width="80" height="40" />
<end id="8" name="End" x="279" y="238" width="80" height="40" />
<split id="9" name="Max Attempts?" x="124" y="160" width="106"
height="40" type="2" >
<constraints>
<constraint toNodeId="8" toType="DROOLS_DEFAULT" name="Maxed"
priority="1" type="code" dialect="java" >return MaxAttempts;</constraint>
<constraint toNodeId="3" toType="DROOLS_DEFAULT" name="Not Maxed"
priority="1" type="code" dialect="java" >return !MaxAttempts;</constraint>
</constraints>
</split>
<actionNode id="10" name="Action" x="430" y="513" width="80" height="40"
>
<action type="expression" dialect="java" >SurveyFlow =
"PEPSurevysBIO";</action>
</actionNode>
<split id="11" name="Is Survey?" x="73" y="315" width="80" height="40"
type="2" >
<constraints>
<constraint toNodeId="12" toType="DROOLS_DEFAULT" name="Not a
survey" priority="2" type="rule" dialect="mvel" >eval(true)</constraint>
<constraint toNodeId="5" toType="DROOLS_DEFAULT" name="Surveyed"
priority="1" type="rule" dialect="mvel" >processInstance :
WorkflowProcessInstance()
TrxSurvey(trxDetail == (processInstance.getVariable("trxDetail"))
)</constraint>
</constraints>
</split>
<end id="12" name="End" x="18" y="396" width="80" height="40" />
</nodes>
<connections>
<connection from="1" to="2" />
<connection from="9" to="3" bendpoints="[113,179]" />
<connection from="10" to="4" />
<connection from="11" to="5" bendpoints="[280,335]" />
<connection from="5" to="6" bendpoints="[]" />
<connection from="4" to="7" />
<connection from="9" to="8" bendpoints="[317,181]" />
<connection from="2" to="9" />
<connection from="5" to="10" bendpoints="[467,412]" />
<connection from="3" to="11" />
<connection from="11" to="12" bendpoints="[59,335]" />
</connections>
</process>
STACK TRACE:
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.drools.common.DefaultFactHandle cannot be
cast to org.drools.common.EventFactHandle
at
org.drools.rule.SlidingTimeWindow.updateNextExpiration(SlidingTimeWindow.java:192)
at
org.drools.rule.SlidingTimeWindow.assertRightTuple(SlidingTimeWindow.java:119)
at
org.drools.rule.BehaviorManager.assertRightTuple(BehaviorManager.java:87)
at org.drools.reteoo.JoinNode.assertObject(JoinNode.java:153)
at
org.drools.reteoo.CompositeObjectSinkAdapter.doPropagateAssertObject(CompositeObjectSinkAdapter.java:360)
at
org.drools.reteoo.CompositeObjectSinkAdapter.propagateAssertObject(CompositeObjectSinkAdapter.java:344)
at org.drools.reteoo.AlphaNode.assertObject(AlphaNode.java:147)
at
org.drools.reteoo.CompositeObjectSinkAdapter.doPropagateAssertObject(CompositeObjectSinkAdapter.java:360)
at
org.drools.reteoo.CompositeObjectSinkAdapter.propagateAssertObject(CompositeObjectSinkAdapter.java:337)
at org.drools.reteoo.ObjectTypeNode.assertObject(ObjectTypeNode.java:185)
at org.drools.reteoo.EntryPointNode.assertObject(EntryPointNode.java:146)
at
org.drools.common.AbstractWorkingMemory.insert(AbstractWorkingMemory.java:1046)
at
org.drools.common.AbstractWorkingMemory.insert(AbstractWorkingMemory.java:1001)
at
org.drools.common.AbstractWorkingMemory.insert(AbstractWorkingMemory.java:788)
at
org.drools.impl.StatefulKnowledgeSessionImpl.insert(StatefulKnowledgeSessionImpl.java:216)
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16 years, 4 months
CEP Question
by Glenn Macgregor
Hi All,
I am still working through a CEP use case which is going fairly well. I have a few rules and it seems they are working as I expect. Is there a way to get called back when events go out of a time window? My current use case is alerting, I have a stream of events (param updates) coming in and I create a ParamUpdateEvent for each. I have a rule which averages the values in the ParamUpdateEvent and tests against a threshold, that is working fine. The problem is when I don't receive any events for a period of time over the window size I really want to the rule which calculates the average to fire when anything is moved out of the window as well as when an update arrives, is this possible?
Thanks
Glenn
16 years, 4 months
Out Of Memory with static Rulebase
by James Williams
Hi,
I hope someone can help me with this.
I are running Drools 5.0.0.CR1 using JANINO to compile a spreadsheet
into rules. I have lots of tests that prove the compilation is working
properly and the rules are correct.
Every now and then (twice in two months) we have had the following
exception start appearing and the rules stop working at all. The error
occurs after the system has been running for a while and at a point in
the application that has been visited many many times before the error
appears.
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:203)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:132)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:97)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
org
.apache
.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.openJARs(WebappClassLoader.java:1724)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
org
.apache
.catalina
.loader.WebappClassLoader.findResources(WebappClassLoader.java:991)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
java.lang.ClassLoader.getResources(ClassLoader.java:1015)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
org.drools.util.ChainedProperties.getResources(ChainedProperties.java:
155)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
org.drools.util.ChainedProperties.<init>(ChainedProperties.java:79)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
org.drools.util.ChainedProperties.<init>(ChainedProperties.java:41)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
org.drools.util.ChainedProperties.<init>(ChainedProperties.java:35)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
org.drools.SessionConfiguration.init(SessionConfiguration.java:112)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
org.drools.SessionConfiguration.<init>(SessionConfiguration.java:106)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
org
.drools
.reteoo
.ReteooStatelessSession.newWorkingMemory(ReteooStatelessSession.java:86)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
org
.drools
.reteoo.ReteooStatelessSession.execute(ReteooStatelessSession.java:185)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
com
.base2
.ecm.just.service.product.LocalRulesEngine.apply(LocalRulesEngine.java:
49)
2010-02-16 02:28:38,143 ERROR [STDERR] at
com
.base2
.ecm
.just
.service
.product
.PublishingDetailsServiceImpl
.getPublishingDetails(PublishingDetailsServiceImpl.java:41)
Here is the code:
private static RuleBase ruleBase;
public void apply(PublishingDetails publishingDetails,
Advertisement advertisment)
{
StatelessSession statelessSession = getStatelessSession();
statelessSession.setGlobal("du",new DateUtils());
Object[] facts = {publishingDetails, advertisment};
statelessSession.execute(facts);
}
public void apply(Publication publication)
{
StatelessSession statelessSession = getStatelessSession();
statelessSession.setGlobal("du",new DateUtils());
statelessSession.execute(publication);
}
private StatelessSession getStatelessSession()
{
if (ruleBase == null)
{
initRuleBase();
}
StatelessSession statelessSession =
ruleBase.newStatelessSession();
return statelessSession;
}
private void initRuleBase()
{
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.setProperty("drools.dialect.java.compiler",
"JANINO");
PackageBuilderConfiguration conf = new
PackageBuilderConfiguration(properties);
PackageBuilder builder = new PackageBuilder(conf);
try
{
SpreadsheetCompiler compiler = new SpreadsheetCompiler();
String drl = compiler.compile(getSpreadsheetStream(),
InputType.XLS);
builder.addPackageFromDrl(new StringReader(drl));
}
catch (DroolsParserException e)
{
throw new RuntimeException("DroolsParserException when
parsing the drools package", e);
}
catch (IOException e)
{
throw new RuntimeException("IOException when loading the
drools package", e);
}
PackageBuilderErrors errors = builder.getErrors();
if (errors != null && !errors.isEmpty())
{
for (KnowledgeBuilderError error : errors)
{
LOG.error(error.getMessage());
}
throw new RuntimeException("There were errors in the drl
file");
}
Package pkg = builder.getPackage();
ruleBase = RuleBaseFactory.newRuleBase();
ruleBase.addPackage(pkg);
}
As I said before the loading of the rules is OK. I'm wondering if
keeping a static reference to the RuleBase might be the issue?
The exception looks like Drools is trying to load a jar file at
runtime. Maybe there is a problem with the container (Jboss 4.2.2)?
If someone could confirm that I'm not doing anything wrong by keeping
a static reference to the RuleBase that would be appreciated. Note
that the system runs perfectly and then starts throwing this exception
with no apparent pattern to the failure.
Cheers
James
16 years, 4 months
Accessing rule flow names
by J Michael Dean
To do testing, I have an event listener that keeps track of which nodes have been activated, etc. by accessing the ProcessNodeEvent where I can either get the NodeID or the NodeName, but cannot get the associated rule flow. The NodeID appears to be numeric and always automatically assigned, so perhaps I should be tracking these values, but I had hoped to keep track of which RuleFlowGroup was activated. Is there a way to access this variable?
Thanks.
- Mike
16 years, 4 months
