Hello,

I never got a reply on that one.

In the meantime, after doing the change I described, I realized that my rules don't all fire. A simple rule like

(defrule MAIN::dpa-unit-reload-on-add
(care-unit (initialLoad TRUE) (needLoadSermeds FALSE) (needReloadPatients TRUE) (OBJECT ?ou))
  (service-activity (available TRUE) (service "SAMU"))
  =>
  (printout t "(jess) Initial load for unit " (call ?ou getId) crlf)
  (call ?ou reloadPatients))

doesn't fire for all care units. After Jess is done running, I wonder why some care units have not been loaded. I re-enter the same rule (copied from a ppdefrule of the rule itself in Jess) and the rule starts firing. One time I even had to enter the rule twice in a row before having all care units processed. And it is not just reloadPatient that failed to change the flags. The text "(jess) Initial load for unit XXX" does not appear on the standard output.

Removing (slot-specific TRUE) from all my templates fixed that. Removing it from only care-unit did not.

Note that I no more use propertyChangeEvents to inform Jess of changes. I now use updateObject on one or all slots as I described below. I could have made a mistake somewhere but when I request the facts from Jess, they look correct to me, so it is not an update problem.

I now deal with Jess problems this way. A rule that acts funny is removed from Jess and some code is written to supplement it outside of Jess.

Regards,
Florian

Florian Fischer wrote:
Hello,

I was wondering what is the performance trade-off between
   rete.updateObject(myObject);
and
   rete.updateObject(myObject, slot);

When I update an object underlying a shadow fact, I record the list of updated fields and call updateObject only at the end. If only one field was updated I pass the slot name as parameter. If I updated more than one, I make a global update.

But for instance, when updating 2 fields out of 91, would it make sense to do two specific updateObject, one for each slot, instead of one global update? If I do a global updateObject, it will have to reread all 91 fields. If I do two specific updateObject, it might reorganize the Rete network twice. So which is better?

Would it make sense to implement a updateObject(String[] slots) for the case where you know which fields were updated?

Thanks in advance,
Florian Fischer


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Florian Fischer
Service d'Informatique Médicale
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève
Tél: 022 37 28861
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