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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