[rules-dev] Changing a fact's hashCode causes rules not to fire

Mark Proctor mproctor at codehaus.org
Wed Jun 22 16:37:13 EDT 2011


As One is a field of Two. When you change One you are also changing Two, 
so you most notify the engine for Two too.

MArk
On 22/06/2011 14:37, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
> To avoid misunderstandings: yes, equals() is written according to 
> hashCode, i.e., according to the usual Java conventions.
>
> If
>
>    - an object of class Two contains a member of class One, and
>    - one object Two and one object One are facts, and
>    - a rule modifies One, changing its hashCode
>
> then
>
>    another rule containing the patterns
>    $one: One()
>    $two: Two( $x: one == $one )
>
> does NOT fire (any more).
>
> If you use the constraint
>    one == $one || != $one
> the rule will fire, and you can observe that hashCode results for $one 
> and $x are the same and that $one.equals( $x ) returns true.
>
> Reproduced using 5.1.1 and 5.2.x
>
> -W
>
>
>
>
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