Re: [rules-users] Retrieve rulename in LHS

Yes, I checked the rule attributes for applicability for my needs. Unfortunately I did not find a way, how this could help me. Here is my scenario: I want to use Drools as engine for complex event processing / event correlation. My current approach is to insert the events as facts containing a timestamp into the working memory and then do "timestamp-arithmetics". That I need a mechanism to mark events as processed, you can see, if you consider the following type of rule: "If there are 3 occurrences of Event "A" within 15 seconds, then fire". Now consider the event sequence: Event "A" at time 0 seconds Event "A" at time 4 seconds Event "A" at time 8 seconds Event "A" at time 12 seconds Obviously I want my rule to be fired, if the first three events were detected. But, without marking the first three events as processed by this rule, the arrival of the fourth event creates 3 new activations: Events 1,2,4 Events 1,3,4 Events 2,3,4 I think it's clear that I'm not interested in these last three rule firings. Note, that we have here only one rule, so locking should prevent the rule from firing at all. So, currently I mark each event occurring in the LHS of a rule in the RHS as processed by this rule and check in the LHS, if the events are not processed by the rule. I know, not very elegant, but I found this to be the easiest way. So, if you have suggestions how to overcome this lack of elegance, please let me know. Thanks. Alexander Claus ----- Original Message ----- From: Edson Tirelli To: Rules Users List Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [rules-users] Retrieve rulename in LHS Alexander, Seems a lot of cumbersome code to control rule execution, and something that should probably not be done that way. Did you looked at the lock-on-active rules attribute? Can't you use it together with either rule-flow or agenda-groups to achieve your goal without manually controlling rules x fact execution? []s Edson 2008/6/2 Alexander Claus <styjdt(a)claus4joy.de&gt;: Hello, I wonder if there is a way to get the rulename in the LHS of a rule directly via DRL. I found a post here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.drools.user/8373, which describes a solution to get the rulename in the RHS of a rule. But that doesn't work in the LHS. I need this to mark some facts as processed by the current rule, so that the facts do not trigger rule firing again together with other facts. Currently I use an arbitrary string, which is only used by one rule. But for the sake of convenience, it would be nice to use such an "automated" mechanism for getting the rulename as this unique identifier string. Thanks in advance. Alexander Claus _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users -- Edson Tirelli JBoss Drools Core Development Office: +55 11 3529-6000 Mobile: +55 11 9287-5646 JBoss, a division of Red Hat @ www.jboss.com