12:32 a.m.
Hi, i've been attempting to use Drools/JBossRules (3.0.5) in a project i'm
working on and i've run into a few issues that i could use some help with.
For the most part i'm struggling with design patterns on how to structure my
facts and my programs object model.
I'm struggling a bit with how to properly introduce my object model into the
working memory. For example, lets say i have an object model such as:
Car(
Engine(
boolean : running
) : engine,
color,
Door(
boolean : open
)[]:doors
)[] : cars
This would model a list of cars and some fields such as engine, color, and
doors. Now how would i create a rule that would return every car with a
running engine? I can't seem to figure out how to correctly reference a
field of a field of a fact. i would want to do something like Car(
engine.running == true ) or Car( Engine( running == true ) ) but that
doesn't work. I can't make the Engine itself a fact because it has to be a
field of the Car, and i can't give the car a field that holds the state of
the engine because then that breaks encapsulation and makes the Car class
very bloated with the state of all of its many components.
Is there a way to do this correctly? i could use a real messy predicate or
something like this:
$car : Car()
eval( isCarRunning( $car ) )
But then what is the point of using Rete? doesn't that just equate down to
about the same amount of work if i just put this in some standard java
if/else code?
Thanks for the help,
....
Kabe
4:18 a.m.
If you assert engine as a seperate fact, you can then access the engine
directly.
In the next version, you will be able to do
Car(engine.running == true) and it will be converted to a predicate (sugar)
- but always less efficient in RETE terms then accessing a field directly on
a fact.
On 1/11/07, Kabe <kabriel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, i've been attempting to use Drools/JBossRules (3.0.5) in a project i'm
working on and i've run into a few issues that i could use some help with.
For the most part i'm struggling with design patterns on how to structure my
facts and my programs object model.
I'm struggling a bit with how to properly introduce my object model into
the working memory. For example, lets say i have an object model such as:
Car(
Engine(
boolean : running
) : engine,
color,
Door(
boolean : open
)[]:doors
)[] : cars
This would model a list of cars and some fields such as engine, color, and
doors. Now how would i create a rule that would return every car with a
running engine? I can't seem to figure out how to correctly reference a
field of a field of a fact. i would want to do something like Car(
engine.running == true ) or Car( Engine( running == true ) ) but that
doesn't work. I can't make the Engine itself a fact because it has to be a
field of the Car, and i can't give the car a field that holds the state of
the engine because then that breaks encapsulation and makes the Car class
very bloated with the state of all of its many components.
Is there a way to do this correctly? i could use a real messy predicate or
something like this:
$car : Car()
eval( isCarRunning( $car ) )
But then what is the point of using Rete? doesn't that just equate down to
about the same amount of work if i just put this in some standard java
if/else code?
Thanks for the help,
....
Kabe
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9:53 a.m.
Thanks Michael. Sure if i assert the Engine of each Car i can create a rule
to return every running Engine, but if my object model does not link an
Engine to a Car (which most OO models would not have double links from Car
<-> Engine as the Engine should not be aware of the Car that encapsulates
it) then i have found an Engine but no Car, and my requirement is to get a
list of all running Cars.
So what i've come to so far is that a rule system working memory is a very
specific model for rules, and it is hard/impossible/notpractical to try and
use an existing object model of a system, and apply rules to it (which i
originally thought i could do). Is that correct? Facts within the working
memory only seem to work if they are flat, in that you evaluate them and
their field values directly, and not a deeper level of traversal like their
contained or referenced object's fields, etc. If you want a structured model
then you need to make sure links between the flat facts can give you the
references you need, such that Car and Engine will both need references to
each other, which is not something you would normally do.
Thanks for the reply.
....
Kabe
On 1/11/07, Michael Neale <michael.neale(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If you assert engine as a seperate fact, you can then access the engine
directly.
In the next version, you will be able to do
Car(engine.running == true) and it will be converted to a predicate
(sugar) - but always less efficient in RETE terms then accessing a field
directly on a fact.
On 1/11/07, Kabe <kabriel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, i've been attempting to use Drools/JBossRules (3.0.5) in a project
> i'm working on and i've run into a few issues that i could use some help
> with. For the most part i'm struggling with design patterns on how to
> structure my facts and my programs object model.
>
> I'm struggling a bit with how to properly introduce my object model into
> the working memory. For example, lets say i have an object model such as:
>
> Car(
> Engine(
> boolean : running
> ) : engine,
> color,
> Door(
> boolean : open
> )[]:doors
> )[] : cars
>
> This would model a list of cars and some fields such as engine, color,
> and doors. Now how would i create a rule that would return every car with a
> running engine? I can't seem to figure out how to correctly reference a
> field of a field of a fact. i would want to do something like Car(
> engine.running == true ) or Car( Engine( running == true ) ) but that
> doesn't work. I can't make the Engine itself a fact because it has to be a
> field of the Car, and i can't give the car a field that holds the state of
> the engine because then that breaks encapsulation and makes the Car class
> very bloated with the state of all of its many components.
>
> Is there a way to do this correctly? i could use a real messy predicate
> or something like this:
>
> $car : Car()
> eval( isCarRunning( $car ) )
>
> But then what is the point of using Rete? doesn't that just equate down
> to about the same amount of work if i just put this in some standard java
> if/else code?
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> ....
> Kabe
>
>
>
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