I am experimenting with the Guided Rule Editor in Eclipse, but I am unable to get a Guided
Rule to parse.
I have created a Drools Project using the basic "Hello World" example for
starters. I've created a class called "Item" with 3 attributes - itemPrice
(float), ItemNumber (int), and itemDescription (String) with getters/setters. I do a
"New-Drools-Guided Rule" to create a .brl file called "GuidedRule.brl"
and get the "drools.package" created automatically. In drools.package, I add
"package com.sample;" and "import com.sample.Item;" and save it.
Then I go over to GuidedRule.brl and create a simple rule in the guided editor (this is
the DRL view of it):
rule "GuidedRule"
dialect "mvel"
when
item : Item()
then
item.setItemDescription("New Description");
end
When I click "save" I get errors.
On the Generated drl (read only), I get two problems ->
BuildError: Unable to build expression for 'consequence': Failed to compile: 2
compilation error(s):
- (1,4) unqualified type in strict mode for: item
- (1,44) unable to resolve method using strict-mode:
java.lang.Object.setItemDescription(java.lang.String) '
item.setItemDescription( "New Description" );'
On the brl source view, I get an error at the <attributes> -> BuildError: Unable
to resolve ObjectType 'Item'
It seems to not be able to see my class, which is public, belonging to the same package,
and included as an import in drools.package. I can get the rule to work if I don't
reference Item (simple "eval(true)" in the LHS, for example)....
I am running Drools 5.1.1 on Eclipse 3.5.
Am I overlooking something simple here?