[rules-users] Somewhat strange question: Rules without a RHS

[Joe Ammann]

On 05/16/2012 09:06 AM, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
> On 16/05/2012, Joe Ammann <joe at pyx.ch> wrote:
>> On 05/15/2012 07:24 PM, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
>>> Assuming you can get hold of the resulting DRL text, a simple script
>>> might detect rules where there is nothing between "then" and "end".
>> I have currently implemented something similar. A REST client that
>> periodically scans the BRLs in certain Guvnor packages and fills out
>> missing RHS. Problem is that the users try to test their broken rules
>> faster than this script can fix them :-/
> You can easily design your DSL/DSLR in such a way that the expanded text is
> jinxed, to be rectified by your scanning script. That way, they won't be
> able to exec without some Joe's blessing ;-)
:-) I like this!
>
>> I was looking for exactly that: an option to replace or inject custom
>> extensions to what you refer to as "Guvnor's validator". But I must
>> admit that I was not able to find any pointer to this in the doc or
>> the Guvnor source. Can you point me to the place in the Guvnor source
>> where that validation actually happens? I might then be able to
>> develop some ideas. 
> There's drools-verifier-5.4.0.Beta2-sources.jar in Expert's sources. Look at
>    org/drools/verifier/Consequence.drl
>
> The first rule is called "No action - possibly commented out".
Had a look at this and I think this will be the way for me: Implement my
own set of verifier rules. It still don't quite understand how I would
"plug" these rules into Guvnor, but I guess I'll just have to do some
source reading :-)

-- 
CU, Joe