OK after jumping through some hoops to get development mode working, I found the problem. Class org.drools.guvnor.client.modeldriven.ui.ActionValueEditor has a method showTypeChoice(Widget w) which has a variable (FactPattern factPattern) used in an if-clause without a null check. The variable was coming back null and blowing up with a NPE, hence the icon didn't work.

I noticed things are uneven in the code regarding null-checks by callers of the function org.drools.ide.common.client.modeldriven.brl.RuleModel.getBoundFact(final String var) - might be something to look at.

--- On Fri, 9/17/10, Scott Mayne <smayne@webfinancialsolutions.com> wrote:

From: Scott Mayne <smayne@webfinancialsolutions.com>
Subject: [rules-users] Guvnor 5.1: Pencil icon not clickable in BRL editor‏
To: rules-users@lists.jboss.org
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 1:47 PM

Hi all,

I'm reading Paul Browne's "JBoss Drools Business Rules" and in Ch. 5 we make a BRL in the guided editor. We're using a simple fact model with a single class (Sales) which has (among others) a field "sales", type long. The book uses an earlier version of Guvnor so things look a little different but everything's worked so far, until I use the editor to make a rule that looks like this in "view source":

rule "SalesDiscount"
  dialect "mvel"
  when
    mySales : Sales( salesValue : sales >= "100" )
  then
    mySales.setSales( salesValue-10 );
    update( mySales );
end

When I try it out, I get this line in the THEN section

"1.  Modify value of Sales [mySales]             sales [pencil icon] [remove icon]

but neither "sales" nor the pencil icon is clickable, so I can't enter what it should change to. When click view source using what I could do I get:

rule "SalesDiscount"
  dialect "mvel"
  when
    mySales : Sales( salesValue : sales >= "100" )
  then
    mySales.setSales( );
    mySales.setWait( );
    update( mySales );
end

[I added the "wait" because the modify field dropdown has this as an option but it's not in the Java class and I'm not sure where it came from.]

Can anyone shed light on this behavior? I'm using the latest version of Firefox, compiling with GWT/building my own EAR (though I haven't done any code changes) using RAD 7.5.5.1 (based on Eclipse 3.4), and am running Guvnor on WebSphere.

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