[rules-users] Delete a List of Facts
Weiss, Wolfgang
Wolfgang.Weiss at joanneum.at
Sat May 25 06:10:49 EDT 2013
Thank you for your quick answer, this was helpful and makes sense.
Best,
Wolfgang
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Gesendet: Samstag, 25. Mai 2013 11:05
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Betreff: Re: [rules-users] Delete a List of Facts
In this rule, $facts is bound to a "live" ArrayList, i.e., a retract has an immediate effect on the collection. Iterate a copy for retracting all in a single firing.
That said, it might be better to write a simple rule retracting each matching Fact individually. Collecting the list and retracting from a copy does not avoid updating the agenda with this rule, 9 times for 10 matching Fact facts.
-W
On 25/05/2013, Weiss, Wolfgang <Wolfgang.Weiss at joanneum.at> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to delete a list of facts from the working memory and therefore
> created following rule:
>
> rule "delete rule"
> agenda-group "evaluation"
> salience 50
> no-loop true
>
> when
> $facts : ArrayList(size > 0) from collect (Fact())
> then
> logger.info("delete rule, number of facts in list: " +
> $facts.size());
>
> for (int i = 0; i < $facts.size(); i++) {
> Fact f = (Fact)$facts.get(i);
> logger.info("retract fact id: " + f.getId());
> retract(f);
> }
> end
>
> When inserting 10 facts with IDs 1 to 10 and then fire all rules, I
> get following result:
> delete rule, number of facts in list: 10 retract fact id: 1 retract
> fact id: 3 retract fact id: 5 retract fact id: 7 retract fact id: 9
>
> but, the facts 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 are not deleted. I would have
> expected to set "no-loop" to true, as I do some modification of facts
> and don't want that this rule is fired again with the same facts. When
> I set "no-loop" to false, I get following result:
> delete rule, number of facts in list: 10 retract fact id: 1 retract
> fact id: 3 retract fact id: 5 retract fact id: 7 retract fact id: 9
> delete rule, number of facts in list: 5 retract fact id: 2 retract
> fact id: 6 retract fact id: 10 delete rule, number of facts in list: 2
> retract fact id: 4 delete rule, number of facts in list: 1 retract
> fact id: 8
>
> now, all facts are deleted but the "delete rule" was fired 4 times. Is
> this the intended behavior of Drools? Is there a way to fire a rule
> only once and delete a list of facts?
> I can reproduce this behavior with Drools 5.5.0.Final and 6.0.0.Beta2
> but did not try any other version.
>
> Best Regards,
> Wolfgang
>
>
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