[rules-users] Assigning variables in decision tables

[Mark Proctor]

I think mic finally understand what you meant and commented in JIRA. Use 
a global, all you want is a way to retrieve some value from the 
rulebase, which is set/populated in the actions. This is no different 
from standard DRL.

Mark
Hehl, Thomas wrote:
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> Mark, You made a comment on my JIRA that I thought I'd post here for 
> discussion:
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> Mark Proctor commented on JBRULES-11 55:
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> anAnwer is a method/function that returns a boolean? Must admit I 
> don't understand what you are trying to do there. Anyway if all you 
> are trying to do is assign the results of a function/method call then 
> why not just use an = assignment?
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> BooleanAnswer = anAnswer(anAnswer.setAnswer(true));
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> Any valid java can used.
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> What I'm really trying to do is simply return a boolean from a set of 
> really complicated rules in my decision table. I run through the rules 
> and if it passes, I return true.
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> The reason I didn't do what you suggested above is b/c there is no 
> documentation to suggest this is valid syntax and, after several 
> postings to this list, no one responded to my requests on how to do 
> this assignment.
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> So, how do I do an assignment in a decision table to simply return a 
> boolean? Otherwise, can you explain the syntax you posted to me. This 
> doesn't look like any Java I've seen and I can't make heads or tails 
> of how it should work.
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> Thanks.
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