[rules-dev] Executing on a arbitrarily complex object

Michael Neale michael.neale at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 17:38:49 EST 2010


One way it has been done in the past is to have some rule with a higher
salience take that "root" object and "explode" it into the children objects
(as deep as needed).

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:01 AM, gazzaaa87 <dan_hopwood at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I am using a StatelessKnowledgeSession and therefore call the execute
> method
> to invoke the rules engine. Having carried out a basic test, it would
> appear
> that calling execute on an arbitrarily complex object does not insert child
> objects, rather rules will only fire if they are based on the parent.
>
> e.g. let's say you have a class called 'Father', which holds a collection
> of
> 'Child' objects. By calling session.execute(fatherObject) I need rules to
> fire that use the Child pattern without having to loop through 'insert'ing
> all the child elements manually.
>
> Has anyone come across a way around this? The only thing I managed to find
> was the use of a Batch Executor but you have to set that up before calling
> execute and therefore it's still effectively a manual process.
>
> If only Drools used java annotations, it would be ideal to specify
> behaviour
> similar to cascade with JPA.
>
> Any help or pointers much appreciated!
>
> Dan
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