I don't think you should consider an agenda strategy for this. Add a simple class: class Score{ int level; int coun; Deal deal; Book book; Score( Deal deal, int level ){...} } and insert an instance along with the Deal to be classified: insert( deal ); insert( new Score( deal ) ); Rules for level 2 would be written according to: rule "trader and product" salience 10 when $s : Score( level == 2, $d : deal ) Deal( this == $d, trader=="Alex", product == "GOOG" ) then $s.setCount( $s.getCount() + 1 ); $s.setBook( "B2" ); end Then you'll need a couple of rules handling success and failure: rule "post level success" salience 5 when $s : Score( $l : level, count == 1, $d : deal, $b : book ) then assign $d to $b, retract $d retract( $s ); end rule "post level failure" salience 5 when $s : Score( $l : level, count != 1 ) then modify( $s ){ setLevel( $l - 1 ); } end Rules for level 1 would also be at salience 10. A rule for level == 0 should catch Deals "gone down" through all levels. -W 2009/10/28 Costigliola Joel (EXT) <joel.costigliola-ext(a)natixis.com&gt;

Yes, probably the constructor should set level's initial value, unless it is OK to have it as a constant, initializing the field directly. Thanks for pointing is out. -W 2009/10/29 Anstis, Michael (M.) <manstis1(a)ford.com&gt;

Ok I think I get it. I think we can enhance the proposed solution (My turn to share insight !) We can get rid of inserting Deal in session since Score already has a reference on deal. It leads to a performance gain since we insert less facts in session and avoid a join in rule (see enhanced rules below). Enhanced Rules : /* level 2 rules */ rule "BR2 trader and product" salience 10 when $s : Score( level == 2, deal.trader=="Alex", deal.product == "GOOG") then $s.setCount( $s.getCount() + 1 ); $s.setBook( "B2" ); end rule "BR3 trader and market" salience 10 when $s : Score( level == 2, deal.trader=="Alex", deal.market == "NY") then $s.setCount( $s.getCount() + 1 ); $s.setBook( "B3" ); end /* level 1 rules : less prioritary than level 2 */ rule "BR1 trader" salience 5 when $s : Score( level == 1, deal.trader=="Alex") then $s.setCount( $s.getCount() + 1 ); $s.setBook( "B1" ); End --------- I also come to another way of handing success and failure (I don't know if it's a better solution) We could change Score to make it a Collector of Book by level, something like : class Score{ Map<level, Book list> booksByLevel // store list of target Book by level Deal deal; } Our rules need to be modified, for example : rule "BR2 trader and product" salience 10 when $s : Score(deal.trader=="Alex", deal.product == "GOOG") then $s.addTargetBook(level2, "B2" ); end new way of handling success/failure rule "book deal" salience 0 when $s : Score() then if $s.hasUniqueLevel2Book() // LEVEL 2 handling assign $s.deal to $s.booksByLevel().get(level2).get(0); retract( $s ); else if $s.hasUniqueLevel1Book() // LEVEL 1 handling assign $s.deal to $s.booksByLevel().get(level1).get(0); retract( $s ); else print("unable to book deal" + $s.deal) retract( $s ); end I like this solution because : - booking rules (BR2) are very simple - success/failure is done in one rule - success/failure id done without calling modify($s) which can lead to performance problem since Drools reevaluate rules against modified fact Regards, Joel ________________________________ De : rules-users-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org [mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org] De la part de Costigliola Joel (EXT) Envoyé : jeudi 29 octobre 2009 10:30 À : 'Rules Users List' Objet : Re: [rules-users] Specific Agenda strategy to control which rulesto fire Hi Wolgang, Interesting advice ! I need to study it a little bit to fully understand it and to see if it can meet my future requirements. Thanks for taking the time to share your insight, Regards, Joel ________________________________ De : rules-users-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org [mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org] De la part de Wolfgang Laun Envoyé : jeudi 29 octobre 2009 08:09 À : Rules Users List Objet : Re: [rules-users] Specific Agenda strategy to control which rules to fire I don't think you should consider an agenda strategy for this. Add a simple class: class Score{ int level; int coun; Deal deal; Book book; Score( Deal deal, int level ){...} } and insert an instance along with the Deal to be classified: insert( deal ); insert( new Score( deal ) ); Rules for level 2 would be written according to: rule "trader and product" salience 10 when $s : Score( level == 2, $d : deal ) Deal( this == $d, trader=="Alex", product == "GOOG" ) then $s.setCount( $s.getCount() + 1 ); $s.setBook( "B2" ); end Then you'll need a couple of rules handling success and failure: rule "post level success" salience 5 when $s : Score( $l : level, count == 1, $d : deal, $b : book ) then assign $d to $b, retract $d retract( $s ); end rule "post level failure" salience 5 when $s : Score( $l : level, count != 1 ) then modify( $s ){ setLevel( $l - 1 ); } end Rules for level 1 would also be at salience 10. A rule for level == 0 should catch Deals "gone down" through all levels. -W 2009/10/28 Costigliola Joel (EXT) <joel.costigliola-ext@natixis.com<mailto:joel.costigliola-ext@natixis.com>> Hello all, I need some help to to set a specific Agenda strategy in order to control finely which activated rules will be fired. Problem context : ----------------- My company is a bank where traders are making deals on markets, these deals must be classified in book, this is what we call "booking process". Booking is done according to booking criteria : which trader has made the deal ? on which product ? wich market ? etc ... A booking rule defines a set of criteria and the target book where the deal will classified, it also has a priority, note that it is ok that two booking rule have same priority. I want to implement booking rule as Drools rule. Several booking rule can be applied to a deal, in that case choosing the right booking rule to fire depends on the following algorithm : - look all the activated booking rule of the highest priority, --- if there is a unique rule apply it --- if there is no unique rule (0 rule or more than one), look at rules of a lesser priority and apply the same logic. Next section is an example that will clear things (I hope). Example : --------- A deal D1 has been done by Alex on NY market to buy Google stocks. We have 3 booking rules : - BR1 : criteria = trader=Alex / book = B1 - BR2 : criteria = trader=Alex and product = google stock / book = B2 As BR2 is more precise than BR1, il will matches the deal and book it in B1 If the deal was on another product, BR1 would have been applied. Things gets more complicated when 2 rules of same priority can be applied. Let's imagine we add the following booking rule - BR3 : criteria = trader=Alex and market = NY / book = B3 We have a problem to book D1 since BR2 and BR3 can be applied but have same priority. We can't choose one over the other thus we must apply a less precise/prioritary rule (if unique at its own precision level). In my example, that would lead to apply BR1. Question : ---------- If I define BR1,BR2,BR3 as Drools rules, how can I tell Drools : - to execute a rule only if there is no other active rule with same precision that could be applied ? - to look for a unique matching rule with less precision level ? I think it's the Agenda responsibility to take this decision, but I don't know how implement that. Can you give some advices on that ? Thanks for your lights in advance, Regards, Joel ________________________________ Ce courriel et toutes les pièces jointes sont confidentiels et peuvent être couverts par un privilège ou une protection légale. 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