[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBRULES-407) List retrieval for categories

[Michael Neale (JIRA)]

List retrieval for categories
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                 Key: JBRULES-407
                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-407
             Project: JBoss Rules
          Issue Type: Sub-task
      Security Level: Public (Everyone can see)
            Reporter: Michael Neale
         Assigned To: Michael Neale


As categories are heirarchical, we need to be able to have some api like:

List results = getRules(String[] categories)
and all assets matching these categories are returned.

eg:
            Cat1
          /         \
     Cat2       Cat3

If a rule is linked to cat1, then if we are looking at Cat3, we will NOT see that rule. If another rule is put in Cat3, and we are looking at Cat1, we will see all the rules "below" it. (ie: when we pass in Cat1 to the query, it needs to know what categories are below it to include when searching for rules).
at present, I believe this categorisation is probably one of the more important things to get right to make the repository useful (for large numbers of rules anyway - assuming all that versioning and ACL shite can be done).

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