In this case the accumulate clause is maintaining a counter (total) that's incremented
whenever a Criteria is detected that is contained in both the Data and Query object
matched in the rule. So:
# Find Criteria that are contained in both the Data and Query
from accumulate( Criteria( this memberOf d, this memberOf q ),
# Initialize the counter to 0
init( int total = 0; ),
# Increment when the above condition is matched
action( total ++; ),
# Decrement if a matched Criteria now fails to match
reverse( total --; ),
# return the total when all known Criteria are matched
result( total ) )
--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Wishing Carebear <wishing.carebear(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Wishing Carebear <wishing.carebear(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [rules-users] some pointers for solution
To: "Rules Users List" <rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org>
Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 11:39 AM
Hi Greg:
I'm trying to understand your first
solution.
Ran the project and it works fine. If possible could
you explain me little bit on :
from accumulate( Criteria( this memberOf d,
this memberOf q ),
init( int total = 0; ),
action( total ++; ),
reverse( total --; ),
result( total ) )
Thanks,
cabear
2009/11/8 Greg Barton <greg_barton(a)yahoo.com>
There are a couple of
ways to do this. I'm sure there's a bit more clean
way than the example I'm providing, but this should get
you in the right direction. It's not 100% rules,
because it involves a bit of java collections trickery. (See
attached project, collection_DroolsCriteriaMatch.tar.gz)
The heart of it is a single rule:
rule "Match"
when
d : Data()
q : Query( size <= d.size )
Number( intValue == q.size )
from accumulate(
Criteria( this memberOf d, this memberOf q ),
init( int total = 0; ),
action( total ++; ),
reverse( total --; ),
result( total )
)
then
System.out.println("Match: " + d + "
and " + q) ;
end
The Data object holds data to be queried, Query objects are
asserted to match the Data, and Criteria objects can be
contained in either. (With the aforementioned collections
trickery that if a Criteria is contained in a Query it can
be found in a Data object, but the reverse isn't true.
See the Query.contains(Object) method for how that's
implemented.)
So the rule above basically says "There's a Data
object, and all of the Query objects Criteria are contained
in the Data object."
There's an alternate way of doing this using eval and a
bit more java fu. See the eval_DroolsCriteriaMatch.tar.gz
project attached. This one's probably not optimal,
though, as it's basically a brute force check of all
Data objects against the asserted Query.
I tried for a while to get a solution working with
different criteria types from both Data and Query objects
being asserted into working memory, but I couldn't get
the accumulate syntax right. Anyone know of a way to do
that? (I figure that would get a "pure rules"
solution.)
--- On Sat, 11/7/09, Wishing Carebear <wishing.carebear(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> From: Wishing Carebear <wishing.carebear(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [rules-users] some pointers for solution
> To: rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org
> Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009, 10:19 PM
> Hello:
> There are n selection criteria from s1 .. sn for each
> item i1.. in. Each item can have a subset of criteria
which
> applies to them.
>
> The end user, can choose a subset of criteria like c1
> and c5 and only the item that has c1 and c5 valid
should be
> returned. For example: if item i1 and i2 have
criterias
> valid for c1, c2, c5, c6, c8 since the request is only
for
> criteria c1 and c5, i1 and i2 must be returned.
>
>
> Is it possible to write a rule using drools for this
> requirement.
>
> Thanks for your help and time,
> cabear
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