Re: [rules-users] How to check for a variable number of "conditions" ina rule?

2008-07-23 Thread Edson Tirelli 
   Ron, if your global is set before ***asserting facts to the working
memory and not changed anymore, you can use it.
   Also, make sure your array or whatever is an attribute of a class, and so
has some semantic to it.

   You can do things like this:

when
MyArrayContainer( $flags : flags )
Number( intValue >= SOME_GLOBAL_THRESHOLD ) from
  accumulate( $f : Flag( value == SOME_GLOBAL_VALUE ) from $flags,
 count( $f ) )
then
   // threshold met
end

Another options is just create a holder class for your globals and
assert it as a fact instead of using globals:

when
MyParameters( $threshold : threshold, $value : value )
MyArrayContainer( $flags : flags )
Number( intValue >= $threshold ) from
  accumulate( $f : Flag( value == $flags ) from $flags,
 count( $f ) )
then
   // threshold met
end


Hope it helps,
   Edson


2008/7/23 Ron Kneusel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>
> Mike,
>
> I think the collect will work, I'll have to look at it more closely because
> the ordering of elements in the array is significant so I'm not sure I can
> just break the elements up into facts and let collect group them however it
> will.
>
> As a follow up, while my solution of using a global in the LHS works, is
> the problem with changing the global simply that the engine will not see the
> changes?  For my case, the global is set before the rules engine is called
> and it will not change while the engine runs.
>
> Ron
>
> Mike wrote:
>
> >Have a look at the "Alarms" example for "Collect" in the (4.0.5) manual.
> >
> >This should give you a good starting point.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Mike
>
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RE: [rules-users] How to check for a variable number of "conditions" ina rule?

2008-07-23 Thread Ron Kneusel 

Mike,

I think the collect will work, I'll have to look at it more closely because the 
ordering of elements in the array is significant so I'm not sure I can just 
break the elements up into facts and let collect group them however it will.

As a follow up, while my solution of using a global in the LHS works, is the 
problem with changing the global simply that the engine will not see the 
changes?  For my case, the global is set before the rules engine is called and 
it will not change while the engine runs.

Ron

Mike wrote:
 
>Have a look at the "Alarms" example for "Collect" in the (4.0.5) manual.
>  
>This should give you a good starting point.
>   
>Cheers,
>   
>Mike

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RE: [rules-users] How to check for a variable number of "conditions" ina rule?

2008-07-22 Thread Anstis, Michael (M.) 
Hi Ron,

Have a look at the "Alarms" example for "Collect" in the (4.0.5) manual.

This should give you a good starting point.

Cheers,

Mike

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Subject: [rules-users] How to check for a variable number of
"conditions" ina rule?


Greetings!

I want to create a rule that checks a fact which contains an array to
see if n or more of the elements of that array have a specific value.
The number of elements to check will vary from invocation to invocation
of the rules engine and will likely be added as a global.

I can do this by using a helper function.  Say, for example, I have:

rule "fire_when_testFlags_true"
when
eval(testFlags(flags, limit.intValue()));
then
System.out.println("Yup, " + limit + " or more flags are
true!");
end

Where flags and limit are both globals.  Then I can define testFlags as:

function boolean testFlags(Flags flags, int threshold) {
int count = 0;

for(int i=0; i < flags.getSize(); i++) {
if (flags.getValue(i)) {
count++;
if (count>= threshold) {
return true;
}
}
}   
return false;
}

This works but violates the warning not to use a global that isn't
immutable in the LHS of a rule.  Does anyone have an idea about how to
implement a rule that in effect has an arbitrary number of conditions to
be tested?

Ron

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