Re: [rules-users] Accessing FactField Metadata

Davide, Thanks for your responses and for re-opening the JIRA. Although I get warnings about accessing FieldDefinition and AnnotationDefinition due to restriction on the drools-core-5.4.0.Final.jar library, it does work to cast FactField to FieldDefinition and use its methods to access the AnnotationDefinitions. Regarding your other suggestion, I was able to use Java reflection to get the FactType annotations (factType.getFactClass().getAnnotations()). However, I was not able to use Java reflection to obtain the field annotations. I successfully used factType.getFactClass().getDeclaredFields() to get the Fields. But then using field.getClass().getAnnotations() on each Field did not return any annotations. Using the debugger, I can see that the factType.definedClass.declaredFields.referent[0].annotations variable is not null and is null for referent[1] and referent[2] where each referent is a Field. I do not know how to interpret the contents of the Field's annotations variable, but at least it is not null for the first Field which seems correct since I have a DRL field annotation on the first field and not on the next 2. Thanks again for your help. Phil From: Davide Sottara [via Drools] [mailto:ml-node+s46999n4019373h56@n3.nabble.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:29 PM To: Courtney, Phil Subject: Re: Accessing FactField Metadata Phil, also consider that getDefinedClass().getAnnotations() will give you the Any custom Drools metadata which is not mapped into a java annotation (e.g. @role) will not be visible from there. ________________________________ If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Accessing-FactField-Metadata-tp4019366 p4019373.html To unsubscribe from Accessing FactField Metadata, click here <http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubs cribe_by_code&node=4019366&code=UGhpbGlwX0NvdXJ0bmV5QHNyYS5jb218NDAxOTM2 Nnw4OTA2NzAxNjM=> . NAML <http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_ viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces .BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web .template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail. naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3A email.naml> -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Accessing-FactField-Metadata-tp4019366p... Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com.