Sounds like a plan :)

On 5 September 2012 10:43, Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@gmail.com> wrote:
On 05/09/2012, Michael Anstis <michael.anstis@gmail.com> wrote:
> I assume, the OP has a bunch of rules that validate Addresses.
>
> The Addresses could be on TaxPayer, NonTaxPayer, Payee, Employee etc etc.

This would require rules for extracting Address(es) from NonTaxPayer,
Payee, Employee etc etc.


>
> I also assume the OP did not want to repeat the Address validation in rules
> containing the source of the Address.

In that case, all the -ayers and ayees should have a common interface,
e.g., Addressable and then you have one rule to fix them all.

-W


>
> As with all assumptions I might be wrong :)
>
> Perhaps the OP can provide more detail.
>
> On 5 September 2012 10:05, Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why not use
>>
>>   when
>>      TaxPayer( $addrList : addressList )
>>      Address( zipCode == null) from $addrList
>>  then
>>      // report missing zip code because: if it is null, it is not
>> invalid - just missing ;-)
>>  end
>>
>> -W
>>
>> On 05/09/2012, Michael Anstis <michael.anstis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > If your rules look something like this:-
>> >
>> > when
>> >     Address( zipCode == null )
>> > then
>> >     //Report an invalid zipCode
>> > end
>> >
>> > You will need to extract the Address from the TaxPayer:-
>> >
>> > when
>> >     TaxPayer( $a : address )
>> > then
>> >     insert( $a );
>> > end
>> >
>> > You will need to consider how to correlate the Address with the
>> > TaxPayer
>> > (to know which TaxPayer has an invalid Address).
>> >
>> > On 5 September 2012 09:50, Suvek <suvek.shah@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I have set of rules defined for Address validation.
>> >> How do I reuse these rules when the Taxpayer object is passed in as
>> >> fact
>> >> which contains Address as one of the field (list to be precise)?
>> >> Do I somehow need to extract and add addresses to working memory
>> >> within
>> >> the
>> >> drl file?
>> >>
>> >> thanks
>> >> S.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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