I do not intend on hijacking your thread, but I have a very similar question that maybe I can get some insight from this thread... How would one write a rule that generically checks the current time against a time in a fact. When the current time and the time in the fact are equal the rule fires? Is this another case where a timer must be used or the calendar? Is there some other way to do this? -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/rules-users-Firing-the-rule-at-the-basi... Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users

Thanks for the Reply, What you are saying makes sense... So, for my purpose of learning timers I would like to take a look at this further... The issues I am having is finding a reference to the real time session clock... So how can I get a reference to the session clock so that I can set time stamp properties within my facts... Also, I should point out that I am using the drools server so the configuration would be through spring in the knowledge-services.xml file... My thought is that I would set a global in my rules.drl file to the session clock instance... But I can not find the session clock for the real time session clock... Also, how would the spring configuration look... Use Case: Load some facts with a message in them, the last run time stamp is set to the current time, the next run time is set to some time in the future... Timer rule will check the current session time to the next run time and fire when appropriate... Then the facts last run time is updated as well as the next run time... Sounds simple... Just need to know how to get a ref to the session clock so I can do the checking and updating... Thanks for any advice... Any advice is welcome... -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/rules-users-Firing-the-rule-at-the-basi... Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users

t Wolfgang Laun-2 wrote: > > The session clock is available from the StatefulKnowledgeSession: > > SessionClock clock = kSession.getSessionClock(); > long ctInMillis = clock.getCurrentTime(); > > I have seen this in the documentation... However, my issue is: how do I get ref to kSession when the session is created through a spring configuration... Or are you saying there is always a reference to kSession within the rules file? if so, how is the ref to kSession accessed? Thanks for your responses, -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/rules-users-Firing-the-rule-at-the-basi... Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users

So, from all of the reading and what you have told me, this is no way currently to do evaluations of time with the session clock on the LHS... That statement being true: Is there any desire or plan to do evaluations of time with the session clock on the LHS (aka the condition)? I think it would be useful, because all processing to gather facts could be based on cron rules... then there is no need to write cron jobs for those processes... Is that a bad idea? -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/rules-users-Firing-the-rule-at-the-basi... Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users