What does the arrow ("->") mean in a rule file? I've searched on Google, looked through the Drools documentation, and haven't been able to find out what it does. It appears in the autocomplete of my IDE for Drools, and I've seen it in an example in the JBoss Seam documentation, but am unable to tell what it does: rule InsertMemberBlog no-loop activation-group "permissions" when principal: Principal() memberBlog: MemberBlog(member : member -> (member.getUsername().equals(principal.getName()))) check: PermissionCheck(target == memberBlog, action == "insert", granted == false) then check.grant(); end; -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-does-the-arrow-%28%22-%3E%22%29-mean-in-a-rule... Sent from the drools - user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users

The simplified syntax you describe doesn't seem to work in Drools 4 (drools-core.jar and drools-compiler.jar, both version 4.0.4): package MyClassRules; dialect "mvel" import com.myclass.MyClass; rule Works when myClass : MyClass() eval(myClass.myBoolean) then System.out.println("This means myBoolean is true"); end; rule DoesntWork when myClass : MyClass(myBoolean) then System.out.println("This means myBoolean is true"); end; The first rule above is fired and the message is printed to the console, as expected, but not the second rule. The above is my rule file in its entirety. What's going wrong here - the file compiles fine, so I'm guessing there's no problem with the syntax? Edson Tirelli-3 wrote: > > The "arrow" is an old syntax from the Drools 3.0 times that is no > longer > necessary and was deprecated in 4. It is the exact same thing as a > bind+eval: > > MemberBlog(member : member -> (member.getUsername().equals( > principal.getName()))) > > Above is exact same thing as: > > MemberBlog(member : member, eval(member.getUsername().equals( > principal.getName()))) > > But in Drools 4 and 5, that can be simplified to: > > MemberBlog( member.username == principal.name ) > > Much cleaner as you can see. > > []s > Edson > > > > 2009/5/1 lightbulb432 <veerukrishnan(a)hotmail.com&gt; > >> >> What does the arrow ("->") mean in a rule file? I've searched on Google, >> looked through the Drools documentation, and haven't been able to find >> out >> what it does. >> >> It appears in the autocomplete of my IDE for Drools, and I've seen it in >> an >> example in the JBoss Seam documentation, but am unable to tell what it >> does: >> >> rule InsertMemberBlog >> no-loop >> activation-group "permissions" >> when >> principal: Principal() >> memberBlog: MemberBlog(member : member -> >> (member.getUsername().equals(principal.getName()))) >> check: PermissionCheck(target == memberBlog, action == "insert", granted >> == false) >> then >> check.grant(); >> end; >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/What-does-the-arrow-%28%22-%3E%22%29-mean-in-a-rule... >> Sent from the drools - user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rules-users mailing list >> rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users >> > > > > -- > Edson Tirelli > JBoss Drools Core Development > JBoss, a division of Red Hat @ www.jboss.com > > _______________________________________________ > rules-users mailing list > rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-does-the-arrow-%28%22-%3E%22%29-mean-in-a-rule... Sent from the drools - user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users