[rules-users] Declaring events separately from rules breaks expires

[Wolfgang Laun]

On 1 November 2010 07:45, Samuli Saarinen <samuli.saarinen at remion.com> wrote:
> On 29.10.2010 19:18, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
>> On 29 October 2010 16:08, Samuli Saarinen <samuli.saarinen at remion.com
>> <mailto:samuli.saarinen at remion.com>> wrote:
>>     Further more if I declare the event in both of the files with different
>>     @expires the one being used is the one that is added first. I was hoping
>>     that the first declaration to be a "default expires" that could be
>>     overwritten later on with a new declaration but it seems that this is
>>     currently not possible.
>>
>>
>> If it were  possible to enhance the very same class with different
>> metadata such
>> as @expires, I'd open a JIRA and call it a bug.
>
> Should declaring the same event multiple times throw an exception then
> if it's not allowed?
>
> I don't know if it makes sense to override other metadata but I think
> with expires it could be possible to use the greater value of two
> different declarations as the engine already uses multiple sources for
> calculating the actual expires (explicit vs. implicit).
>

I'm very much against any ad-hoc rules that would silently cover a
situation that might be an error due to oversight. Expiry is currently
a static property of an Event type and I see absolutely no benefit in
having multiple definitions. And why maximum? Why not minimum? Or
average ;-)
-W

> Cheers,
> Samuli
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