Re: [rules-users] Better ways to write left hand sides
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Dave Schweisguth <dave(a)schweisguth.org>wrote:
Greetings fellow Droolers,
I've just begun using Drools and am very happy with it so far as it seems
to
be a great fit for what we want to do. My left hand sides are not quite
beautiful enough, however, and I wondered if anyone could suggest
improvements.
1) One of my facts' properties is a set of strings. The goal is to "grep"
them for some search string. The most convenient syntax I've come up with
so far is to give the fact a method anyTextContains which loops over the
set and calls contains(searchString) on each member, and then use
fact: Fact() eval(fact.anyTextContains("searchString"))
in my LHS. It's compact enough, but I wondered whether it could be done
without a custom method or eval. "from" seems not to be a possibility since
the collection is of strings, not objects. Any suggestions?
But any java.lang.String is an Object, although without a field (in the
usual sense),
Nevertheless, try
rule "Match John"
when
Vote( $names : names ) // Set<String> names
String( this matches "John" ) from $names
then
System.out.println( "Hi John" );
end
-W
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