Thomas,
Thanks the response. I'm not sure how the newlines disappeared from my post
either. I do know I'd put them all there neatly formatted.
I'll try out solution you provided and let you know how it goes. I guess
I'll have to resort to quite a few evals in my decision tables, given that
'from' does not work in there. Don't like it, but if it works, at least
I'll
be able to acheive my project's objects.
Thanks again for the solution. I'll let you know how it works out.
Gurvinder
Swindells, Thomas wrote:
Hi Gurvinder.
Not sure where new lines have gone from your email - it makes it very hard
to read!
I've also been working on a project which uses decision tables and I
couldn't find any way to use from statements either. I'm hoping to get
some time within the project to work on the drools decision table code to
add some improvements, providing support for the from clause is one of
these however I'm not sure whether I will get time or not.
However I think you may be able to restructure your code so that you don't
need the from cause however I've not fully tested it. The code relies on
their existing a constructor which takes the promotion code and the equals
is defined that P1.equals(P2) when P1.code.equals(P2.code).
If you wanted to match that a promotion of a particular name exists then I
think you can use the rule
Rule "existsPromotion" when
Line(promos contains (new Promotion("HOTBUY"))) then ...
However the expression language doesn't support "not contains" which means
you have to full back to use java:
rule " contains d"
when
line : Line(eval(!line.getPromos().contains(new
Promotion("HOTBUY"))))
then
...
end
If you prefer you could also define a method on Line
containsPromotionWithCode(code) which would let you choose how to do the
match.
As a spreadsheet the above would then look something like the following:
RuleTable Hotbuys
NAME
CONDITION
ACTION
l :Line
eval(!l.getPromos().contains(new Promotion("$param")))
System.out.println("$param");
Rule Name
Number Directors
Warning
example1
Hotbuys
Hotbuys missing
Hope that helps,
Thomas
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Subject: [rules-users] Can we use 'from' CE in Decision Tables ?
Hello all, Is it possible to define the follow rule in a decision table :
rule "Activate Promotion" when l : Line( ) not ( Promotion ( code ==
"HOTBUY" ) from l.promos ) then #do some action end The rule above works
perfectly for what I need when defined in a rule file. However, when I try
to define it in a decision table so that the 'code' can be feed from a
spreadsheet, I use the following values in the rules cells : RuleTable
HOTBUYS CONDITION ACTION l : Line not ( Promotion ( code == "$param" )
from l.promos ) System.out.println("$param added"); PROMOTION PROMOTION
HOTBUY BESTBUY I'm getting the following parser errors [10,17]: [ERR 101]
Line 10:17 no viable alternative at input 'Promotion' in rule "_11" in
pattern Line [10,29]: [ERR 101] Line 10:29 no viable alternative at input
'code' in rule "_11" [10,63]: [ERR 102] Line 10:63 mismatched input
')'
expecting 'then' in rule "_11" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
Could
not parse knowledge. at
com.sample.DecisionTableTest.readKnowledgeBase(DecisionTableTest.java:85)
at com.sample.DecisionTableTest.main(DecisionTableTest.java:28) Also in
Eclipse IDE, I get the following error : "Unknown error while parsing.
This is a bug. Please contact the Development team." NewPromotions.xls Is
it possible to use 'from' conditional element in decision tables ? If so,
what am I doing wrong. If not, then what's the best approach to implement
the rule above in a decision table. I'm running Drools 5.1.0M1 in Eclipse.
Help truly appreciated. Gurvinder
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