[rules-users] Building a rule base from the content of a directory

[Toni Rikkola]

Can't remember what the issue was with BRL back then. I can take a second look at the TODO next week.

Toni Rikkola

On Nov 19, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Bruno Freudensprung wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Many thanks for you answer!
> Are you talking about DroolsCompilerAntTask and DroolsVerifierAntTask 
> Ant tasks (that I discovered after having read you email)?
> 
> I've taken a look at the code of the DroolsCompiler task (Drools 5.1.1) 
> and it also concatenates (into a single string) the package file and the 
> BRL file (transformed into DRL) before adding it to the 
> KnowledgeBuilder. The code comes along with the following comment:
>            // TODO: Right now I have to first change this to String. 
> Change to
>            // use KnowledgeBuilder directly when the support for that 
> is done.
>            // -Toni Rikkola-
> 
> I really wonder if there is a more straighforward way to handle that 
> "package file + BRL file" association. This is quite fair however 
> compared to the following case:
> the Drools RCP plugin enables to create "rule resources", either "rule 
> packages" (a DRL file with package, import, globals...) in a single DRL 
> file, or "individual rules" in a single DRL file as well. An "individual 
> rule" seems to be kinda like a BRL file: something without any package, 
> import, globals... and with one rule. The problem is I don't see a 
> clever way (when listing the content of a directory) to make the 
> distinction between "individual rules" and "rule packages".
> 
> For the moment I tend to think that, like in Guvnor UI, the solution is 
> to have conventions (this directory contains "individual rules", that 
> directory contains "rule packages", that one "business rules"...).
> 
> Bruno.
> 
> 
> Justin Case a écrit :
>> I'm happily using an Ant task for that - registered as Eclipse external builder. 
>> But I don't feel it exactly like cutting edge...
>> HTH,
>> JC
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> rules-users mailing list
>> rules-users at lists.jboss.org
>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users
>> 
>> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> rules-users mailing list
> rules-users at lists.jboss.org
> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users