[rules-users] form of accumulate in examples is depricated?

[Esteban Aliverti]

There are currently 3 ways to write your accumulate pattern in drools:

   1. The way you have pointed out containing all the different sections:
   init, action, reverse and result. The problem with this syntax is that you
   have to embed java code in your rules making them hard to read and
   maintain. Following this syntax, if you want to reuse an accumulate
   function you have to copy and paste it. This form of accumulate is highly
   discouraged by drools team.
   2. Use some of the predefined accumulate functions like sum(), avg(),
   count(), etc.
   3. If the predefined set of accumulate functions is not enough you can
   create your accumulate function in a Java class and then register it in
   drools and use it in your DRL. Please refer to the documentation for
   further information.

Best Regards,



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Esteban Aliverti
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Michiel Vermandel <mvermand at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In lots of rules in the drools planner examples the accumulate function is
> used in this way:
>
> rule "requiredCpuPowerTotal"
>     when
>         $computer : CloudComputer($cpuPower : cpuPower)
>         $requiredCpuPowerTotal : Number(intValue > $cpuPower) from
> accumulate(
>             CloudProcess(
>                 computer == $computer,
>                 $requiredCpuPower : requiredCpuPower),
>             sum($requiredCpuPower)
>         )
>     then
>         insertLogical(new IntConstraintOccurrence("requiredCpuPowerTotal",
> ConstraintType.NEGATIVE_HARD,
>                 $requiredCpuPowerTotal.intValue() - $cpuPower,
>                 $computer));
> end
>
> (example from cloudBalancing).
>
> Though, documentation says (
> http://docs.jboss.org/drools/release/5.5.0.Final/drools-expert-docs/html_single/#d0e6921)
> one should this syntax:
>
> <result pattern> from accumulate( <source pattern>,
>                                   init( <init code> ),
>                                   action( <action code> ),
>                                   reverse( <reverse code> ),
>                                   result( <result expression> ) )
>
> Does this mean that the axemples could be optimized and that I should go
> for that syntaxt as well rather than using the syntax like rule
> "requiredCpuPowerTotal" ?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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