[rules-users] Can someone explain what RulebaseConfiguration.setRemoveIdentities(true) does?

[Mark Proctor]

Brett M. Bergquist wrote:
> In the manual, there is an example when setting up to use identity 
> assert behavior:
>
>    RuleBaseConfiguration conf = new RuleBaseConfiguration();
>    conf.setAssertBehaviour( AssertBehaviour.IDENTITY );
>    conf.setRemoveIdentities( true );
>    RuleBase ruleBase = RuleBaseFactory.newRuleBase( conf );
>     
> I need to use AssertBehavior.EQUALITY in one of my RuleBase and I 
> don't know if I need to call "conf.setRemoveIdentities" or not.  The 
> API documentation is very sparse on what this method does.
remove identities is not needed for equality mode - it simply removes 
cross product rows that have the same instance in multiple matches for 
that row of data.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Brett
>
>
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