If the "donator" isn't a fact, it's not visible to the engine.
Globals are OK on the RHS and as a provider for constant (!) data used as
stand-in for literals on the LHS. Other than this: beware!
-W
2011/10/31 Michael Anstis <michael.anstis(a)gmail.com>
I thought use of the "from" keyword allowed you to reason
over facts
(potentially) not in WM. I believe the OP's example is mentioned in the
docs?
sent on the move
On 31 Oct 2011 15:08, "Wolfgang Laun" <wolfgang.laun(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Globals cannot to be used - directly or indirectly - as objects that
> should trigger
> the firing of rules. It is only insert, modify or update, and retract
> that cause (re-)evaluation of LHS conditions.
>
> -W
>
> On 31 October 2011 15:05, elsdestickere <elsdestickere(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I read docs about global and Hibernate to access your DB from the rules.
>> I tried something simular for in memory DAO's.
>> But some rules fire ("WM" in RHS) as the DAO has 3 items, but others
>> ("dao"
>> in LHS) don't, how is that possible?
>>
>> global RepositoryFactory repFact;
>> rule "dao"
>> when
>> k : Customer( ) from repFact.getCustomerRepository().findAll();
>> then
>> System.out.println( "Drools "+drools.getRule().getName()+":
"
>> +k.getName());
>> end
>> rule "WM"
>> when
>> k : Customer( ) ;
>> then
>> System.out.println( "Drools "+drools.getRule().getName()+":
"
>> +k.getName()+" + size:
>> "+repFact.getCustomerRepository().findAll().size());
>> end
>> ...
>> RepositoryFactory repFact = Registry.getRepositoryFactory();
>> ksession.setGlobal("repFact", repFact);
>> ...
>> CustomerRepository customerRepo = Registry.getRepositoryFactory()
>> .getCustomerRepository();
>> customerRepo.add(tom);
>> customerRepo.add(elise);
>> customerRepo.add(bert);
>> ksession.insert(bert);
>> ksession.fireAllRules();
>>
>> ...
>> Output:
>> Drools WM: Bert + size: 3
>>
>> br,
>> Els
>>
>>
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