rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org wrote on 05/19/2009 06:40:34 PM:

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> Re: [rules-users] How to import DRL into Business Rule Assets  section?
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> Late Norther
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> 2009/5/19 Michal Bali <michalbali@gmail.com>:
> > Hi Jon,
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> > You could use webdav to connect to Guvnor -
> > http://blog.athico.com/2008/05/accessing-guvnor-as-filesystem-webdav.html.
> > You should then see how Guvnor stores the 'business rules', I think it is an
> > XML file. Then instead of generating DRL file you could generate this XML.
> > You can then upload these files via webdav into Guvnor.
> > Hope this helps.
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> > Regards,
> > Michal
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> Michal,
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> I can't thank you enough.  This worked well.
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> For others, here is a review of what I did.
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> 1. Created a 'dummy' rule using the guided editor in my target package.
> 2. Used the blog URL above to mount the package webdav share
> 3. Downloaded the 'dummy' rule from the webdav share to act as a template
> 4. Updated my Perl import/export script to create .brl files instead
> of .drl files, using the template.
> 5. Copied the new .brl files created by my utility script to the webdav share.
> 6. Go back to Guvnor GWT and saw/confirmed my rules.
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> The only snafu I found was that I am unable to populate a category as
> part of the import, but I can have my analysts do that by hand if
> needed.  That apparently is not stored in the .brl, but rather
> somewhere else.   I did confirm that I can update the category in the
> UI after the load.
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> Again,  Thank you.
>
> Jon
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Jon,

We are currently trying to convert our drl files to brls as well.  Would it be possible to share your perl conversion utility?  We were just about to start creating a similar script, but it would help us out greatly if we could have a look at yours.

Thanks,

Steve