Hi

I have have a file with some rules. When I load the rules as a drl-file all my junit-tests work. But when I load the rules as PKG one of the rule is failing. 

This is the rule causing the problem

rule "Lookup synonym"
    when
    $normalization : NormalizationFact(valid, resultFact == null)
    NormalizerMetadataService(synonymNames contains $normalization.type )
        $synonymService : SynonymService()
    then
    System.out.println(drools.getRule().getName());
    modify($normalization) {
    setResultFact(new ResultFact($synonymService.getValue($normalization.getType(), $normalization.getValue())))
    }
end

After some investigation I can reduce the problem to 

setResultFact(new ResultFact(""))   <-------------------------  Working
setResultFact(new ResultFact(null)) <------------------------- Not working, see log below

This is the code executed in ResultFact

public class ResultFact {
private final String result;
private final boolean valid;

public ResultFact(String result) {
this(result, true);
}

public ResultFact(String result, Boolean valid) {
super();
this.result = result;
this.valid = valid;
}

        other methods ...
}

The exception I get is 

Exception executing consequence for rule "Lookup synonym" in normalization: [Error: $normalization.setResultFact(new ResultFact(null)): array index out of bounds.]
[Near : {... $normalization.setResultFact(n ....}]
             ^
[Line: 1, Column: 1]
at org.drools.runtime.rule.impl.DefaultConsequenceExceptionHandler.handleException(DefaultConsequenceExceptionHandler.java:39)
at org.drools.common.DefaultAgenda.fireActivation(DefaultAgenda.java:1297)
at org.drools.common.DefaultAgenda.fireNextItem(DefaultAgenda.java:1221)
at org.drools.common.DefaultAgenda.fireAllRules(DefaultAgenda.java:1456)
at org.drools.common.AbstractWorkingMemory.fireAllRules(AbstractWorkingMemory.java:710)
at org.drools.common.AbstractWorkingMemory.fireAllRules(AbstractWorkingMemory.java:674)
at org.drools.impl.StatefulKnowledgeSessionImpl.fireAllRules(StatefulKnowledgeSessionImpl.java:230)
at com.mawell.normalize.service.rule.DroolsRuleEvaluatorImpl.evaluate(DroolsRuleEvaluatorImpl.java:62)
at com.mawell.normalize.service.infrastructure.util.backend.SynonymServiceTest.execute(SynonymServiceTest.java:126)
at com.mawell.normalize.service.infrastructure.util.backend.SynonymServiceTest.execute(SynonymServiceTest.java:115)
at com.mawell.normalize.service.infrastructure.util.backend.SynonymServiceTest.ShouldNotTranslate_q(SynonymServiceTest.java:75)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:41)
at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:20)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runNotIgnored(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:79)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:71)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:49)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:193)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:52)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:191)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:42)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:184)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:236)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)
Caused by: [Error: $normalization.setResultFact(new ResultFact(null)): array index out of bounds.]
[Near : {... $normalization.setResultFact(n ....}]
             ^
[Line: 1, Column: 1]
at org.mvel2.optimizers.impl.refl.ReflectiveAccessorOptimizer.compileGetChain(ReflectiveAccessorOptimizer.java:424)
at org.mvel2.optimizers.impl.refl.ReflectiveAccessorOptimizer.optimizeAccessor(ReflectiveAccessorOptimizer.java:143)
at org.mvel2.ast.ASTNode.optimize(ASTNode.java:159)
at org.mvel2.ast.ASTNode.getReducedValueAccelerated(ASTNode.java:115)
at org.mvel2.compiler.ExecutableAccessor.getValue(ExecutableAccessor.java:42)
at org.mvel2.ast.WithNode$ParmValuePair.eval(WithNode.java:278)
at org.mvel2.ast.WithNode.getReducedValueAccelerated(WithNode.java:67)
at org.mvel2.ast.InterceptorWrapper.getReducedValueAccelerated(InterceptorWrapper.java:40)
at org.mvel2.MVELRuntime.execute(MVELRuntime.java:85)
at org.mvel2.compiler.CompiledExpression.getDirectValue(CompiledExpression.java:123)
at org.mvel2.compiler.CompiledExpression.getValue(CompiledExpression.java:119)
at org.mvel2.compiler.CompiledExpression.getValue(CompiledExpression.java:113)
at org.mvel2.MVEL.executeExpression(MVEL.java:930)
at org.drools.base.mvel.MVELConsequence.evaluate(MVELConsequence.java:104)
at org.drools.common.DefaultAgenda.fireActivation(DefaultAgenda.java:1287)
... 32 more
Caused by: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1931)
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1904)
at org.mvel2.util.ErrorUtil.rewriteIfNeeded(ErrorUtil.java:12)
at org.mvel2.optimizers.impl.refl.ReflectiveAccessorOptimizer.getMethod(ReflectiveAccessorOptimizer.java:959)
at org.mvel2.optimizers.impl.refl.ReflectiveAccessorOptimizer.compileGetChain(ReflectiveAccessorOptimizer.java:377)
... 46 more

I'm running version 5.5.0.Final of both Drools and Guvnor.

regards
Markus