I was following almost literally the example given in the "Drools Introduction", Section 2.1.1.4., Type Declaration 'extends'.
It appears that Drools is very similar to Eleusis ;-)
-W
2011/5/29 Mark Proctor <mproctor@codehaus.org>
>
> This is what's in the unit test "test_ExtLegacy.drl":
> declare BetterLegacy extends LegacyBean
> // novel field
> oneMoreField : String = "Hello"
>
> // inherited fields redeclared to set initial value
> doubleField : Double = 3.3 @position(1) // tag inherited field, will be 1st field
> strField : String = "XX"
> intField : int = 245
> prop : boolean = true
> // objField is not redeclared
> end
>
> and this one "test_Extends.drl"
> declare Person
> age : int = 99 @position(2)
> name : String = "john doe" @key @position(1)
> end
>
> declare Student extends Person
> school : String @key @position(3)
> end
>
>
> declare LongTermStudent extends Student
> years : int @key @position(5)
> course : String @position(4)
> end
>
>
> On 28/05/2011 18:22, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
>
> It doesn't work:
>
> declare Customer extends Person
>
> is declined with
>
> Cannot extend supertype 'date.cust.Person' (not a declared type)
>
> -W
>
> 2011/5/28 Edson Tirelli <ed.tirelli@gmail.com>
>>
>> Wolfgang,
>> I think Davide's implementation supports extending existing java classes... did you tried? What is not possible is to implement interfaces, since you can't define methods in the declare statement.
>> Edson
>>
>> 2011/5/28 Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> There is, since 5.2.0, the option of extending a class declared in DRL:
>>>
>>> declare A
>>> i : int
>>> end
>>>
>>> declare B extends A
>>> ...
>>> end
>>>
>>> Any class origninating from Java code cannot be extended in DRL.
>>>
>>> -W
>>>
>>>
>>> On 28 May 2011 10:56, Tomas Olsson <tol@sics.se> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I have tried to look this up but cannot find any clear answer on the web.
>>>> Does drools support extension of existing classes for new type declarations?
>>>> That would be very nice if this would be possible.
>>>>
>>>> /Tomas
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