Re: [rules-users] Problem passing objects to a method via the eval statement

I am curious if anyone else has run into this problem.....It seems like there is something wrong in the Drools Logic....My issue can be very easily be recreated in about 5 minutes.... >From eclipse I set up a new drools project. Where DroolTest.java is defined I create 4 new classes, ClassA, ClassB extends ClassA, ClassC extends ClassA, and ClassD. Each of these classes has a default constructor that does nothing, there are no attributes or anything in these classes just to make the example simple to reproduce. Ie ClassA looks like this.... package com.sample; public class ClassA { public ClassA() { } } Now within the DroolsTest.java source code at line 29 (ie right after the workingMemory.insert( message ) method call I added 4 more lines which creates and inserts two objects... ClassB classB = new ClassB(); ClassD classD = new ClassD(); workingMemory.insert( classB ); workingMemory.insert( classD ); and then the next line would be the workingMemory.fireAllRules(); as normal. Then in the sample.drl file I add the following rule and functions 1 rule "Test" 2 when 3 4 $classA : ClassA() 5 $classD : ClassD() 6 7 (or 8 $classB : ClassB(eval($classB == $classA)) 9 $classC : ClassC(eval($classC == $classA)) 10 ) 11 12 eval(retB($classA, $classD)) 13 14 then 15 System.out.println("\n\n<<FIRE RULE>>TEST"); 16 end 17 18 function boolean retA(Object obj) { 19 System.out.println("Ret Val = " + obj); 20 return true; 21 } 22 23 function boolean retB(Object obj1, Object obj2) { 24 System.out.println("Ret Val 1 = " + obj1); 25 System.out.println("Ret Val 2 = " + obj2); 26 return true; 27 } So what I am doing is very quick and very simple to reproduce. What is happening is that when i run the program I am getting a class cast exception which is very very strange. At first I thought it was tied only to the OR statement because if I break the rule into two rules (one for each of the or conditions) it works fine. But after playing with it a little further I get a lot of other strange class cast exceptions. For instance if I replace line 12 (eval(retB($classA, $classD))) with eval(retA($classA)) it works fine, but if I replace it with eval(retA($classD)) I get another class cast exception. Another strainge issue....if switch lines 4 and 5 and keep line 12 as eval(retA($classD)) that previously failed, it now passes, but if I change line 12 back to eval(retA($classA)) which previously passed it now fails..... There are a few other combinations that produce errors as well. Just seems to be a fundamental flaw in the logic and I'm curious if anyone else has seen this? Thanks! Joshua P.S. Also I've noticed an issue with the manual example 6.36 This does not seem to work for me pensioner : (or Person( sex == "f", age > 60 ) Person( sex == "m", age > 65 ) ) But this does (or pensioner : Person( sex == "f", age > 60 ) pensioner : Person( sex == "m", age > 65 ) ) Although both formats are stated as working in the manual.