[rules-users] Processing a collection within a fact object

[Wolfgang Laun]

On 26 July 2011 22:47, kirkm <kirkmster at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have an application that is inserting a fact object into a session.  The
> object has a collection in it that is being iterated and each of the
> individual children objects is being inserted into the session with a
> reference back to their "parent" object. The child facts cause other rules
> to fire and the children objects are updated in some situations. Is there
> any way to determine if all the rules have fired due to the children
>

"All the rules" for each child? "All the rules" for the children summarily?

But the answer is: "Yes, if you keep track of rule firings."
a) by making "notches" in the parent
b) by inserting separated objects
c) ...



> insertions? The desired result is to have a parent object with possible
> updates to the children for further processing.
>
> Can and should an accumulator be used instead of the inserting the child
> objects?
>

Probably not, since you wrote "desired result...for further processing".
-W


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