[rules-users] no viable alternative at input 'or'

[Swindells, Thomas]

What are you actually trying to achieve?
It would probably be a lot cleaner and better just to write these as separate rules - one for each case you want to consider.

Thomas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rules-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org [mailto:rules-users-
> bounces at lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of chrbonte
> Sent: 26 October 2010 10:52
> To: rules-users at lists.jboss.org
> Subject: [rules-users] no viable alternative at input 'or'
>
>
> Hi
>
> I'm struggling with the rule syntax. I took over this drools project of a
> collegue who left the company and am struggling with a bug in our
> application.
>
> The following works:
>
> rule "cbo2"
> when
> (or
> Patient(sex == "F")
> Patient(sex == "")
> )
> then
> ...
> end
>
> What doesn't work is the following:
>
> rule "cbo"
> when
> (or
>       (or
>               Patient(sex == "F")
>               Patient(age > 2)
>       )
>       Patient(sex == "")
> )
> then
> ...
> end
>
> AND
>
> rule "cbo"
> when
> (or
>       (or
>               Patient(sex == "F")
>               Patient(age > 2)
>       )
> )
> then
> ...
> end
>
> -------------------
>
> Can someone please point me in the right direction or explain to me why I
> get "no viable alternative at input 'or' with the last 2 examples?
>
> Regards
> Christophe
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