[rules-users] getWorkingMemoryEntryPoint returns null - two rules with same name

[ScalaEnthusiast]

All,

I was getting a null returned when requesting an entrypoint using
getWorkingMemoryEntryPoint("myEntryPoint") in BRMS 5.3.1 (Drools 5.3). To be
clear "myEntryPoint" is an entry point defined in my technical rule. 

What was causing my issue was that there were two rules of the same name
(cut-n-paste error), one with the entry-point and one without. As soon as I
changed the name of one of the rules, I no longer received the null pointer
error - I was able to get the entry point from the session.

I am posting this for others who may run into this [edge] case and to see if
this would be considered a bug. The package source shows that the rule
without the entry point came first and the one with the entry-point was
second. Not sure how the system handles loading rules but I wouldn't think
two rules with the same name should be allowed. Is this a validation issue
that Guvnor needs to deal with?

Any thoughts from those in the know?

Thanks,
ScalaEnthusiast



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