Hi Scott,
On Mar 2, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Krasnigor, Scott L (N-AST) wrote:
In our application, we are dynamically creating and removing rules
from the engine. We are sent a set of rules that are associated
with a certain module based on parameters passed to us along with
the rules. We are notified when a rule is no longer needed and we
remove the rule (or rules) from the engine. What we would like to
do is when a module no longer contains rules; we want to remove
that module from the engine. IÂ’ve searched through the
documentation/book/api but did not see a way to remove a module
from the engine.
Right now Jess doesn't officially support undefining a module.
There's no compelling reason so do so other than aesthetics; an empty
module takes little space and no compute time.
I noticed in the mailing list that someone retrieved an iterator of
modules and removed a particular one from the iterator using
iterator.remove(). Is this the best way of removing modules or is
there a more efficient way to accomplish this?
This is not supported, but it does work. If you do this when there
are any rules defined in the module, then Bad Things will happen, so
do it carefully.
Also, is there a simple way to determine if a module contains any
rules? Thanks for any assistance.
The (rules) function takes a module name as an optional argument, and
lists the rules in that module; but its actually implemented by
calling Rete.listRules() and iterating through all the rules.
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