I'm running into an issue where the || operator embedded in a collect isn't working as expected. My collect statement is as follows...
$request : AccessRequest($name : username, $ID : sessionID, $loc : accessLocation, $day : dayOfAccess)
$locationRules : ArrayList(size > 0) from
collect (AccessRule((allowedLocation == "ANY" || allowedLocation == $loc))
from $group.getRules())
I don't get comilation or runtime errors but I don't the expected behavior either. That is, I don't get the intersection of AccessRules that have allowedLocation equal to ANY or allowedLocation equal to the bound $loc variable. Instead, the empty set is returned.
When I modify the rule to look like
$request : AccessRequest($name : username, $ID : sessionID, $loc : accessLocation, $day : dayOfAccess)
$locationRules : ArrayList(size > 0) from
collect (AccessRule(allowedLocation == $loc))
from $group.getRules())
I get the expected output.
However, when I modify the rule to look like
$request : AccessRequest($name : username, $ID : sessionID, $loc : accessLocation, $day : dayOfAccess)
$locationRules : ArrayList(size > 0) from
collect (AccessRule((allowedLocation == "ANY"))
from $group.getRules())
...it returns the empty set even though there are rules that have allowedLocation set to "ANY" (i confirmed this by debugging my java code). I haven't seen any documentation that uses the collect statement this way but according to my understanding of the grammer this should work. For some reason the allowedLocation == "ANY" embedded in the collect isn't working. What's interesting to note is that the following rule works flawlessly (notice the absence of the collect statement)...
rule "test"
when
# does the user that just requested access exist in a group
$request : AccessRequest($name : username, $ID : sessionID, $loc : accessLocation, $day : dayOfAccess)
$rule : AccessRule(allowedLocation == "ANY" || allowedLocation == $loc, allowAccess == "true")
then
System.out.println("Test passed");
end
Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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