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by Dan Seaver
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Charlie,
I'm not sure why your function doesn't compile as it looks fine to me. Do you have any other details about the message you're getting from the compiler?
In any case, you may want to consider solving the problem a different way. In general, you should try to avoid "eval" statements whenever possible as they can severely hamper performance. Edson wrote up some helpful hints - see "Eval is Evil" at - http://blog.athico.com/2007/03/writing-better-rules.html
As an alternative, try populating working memory with each of the Person's tagList items and then use "memberOf" to determine if it's one of the engineering TagCodes. (You may be able to use the "from" statement with the Person's tagList instead of populating working memory) This allows Drools to do all of the work for you and may very well be faster than using loops.
Let me know if you need further clarification.
I'm not sure why your function doesn't compile as it looks fine to me. Do you have any other details about the message you're getting from the compiler?
In any case, you may want to consider solving the problem a different way. In general, you should try to avoid "eval" statements whenever possible as they can severely hamper performance. Edson wrote up some helpful hints - see "Eval is Evil" at - http://blog.athico.com/2007/03/writing-better-rules.html
As an alternative, try populating working memory with each of the Person's tagList items and then use "memberOf" to determine if it's one of the engineering TagCodes. (You may be able to use the "from" statement with the Person's tagList instead of populating working memory) This allows Drools to do all of the work for you and may very well be faster than using loops.
Let me know if you need further clarification.
Charlie Holland wrote:I'm fairly new to Drools so there may be an easier way to do this. I need to
check to see if any one of a list of tags on an object are in another list
of tags and am trying to do that with a function. the compiler tells me it
can't compile my eval function:
#list any import classes here.
**
*import* com.cp.services.rules.sources.Person;
**
*import* com.cp.services.rules.actions.PersonActions;
**
*import* com.cp.rules.TagCodes;
**
*import* java.util.List;
#declare any global variables here
**
*global* com.cp.services.rules.actions.PersonActions personActions;
**
*function* *boolean* hasOneOf(List list1, String[] list2){
*for* (Object obj : list1) {
String string = (String)obj;
*for* (*int* j = 0; j < list2.length; j++) {
*if* (string != *null* && string.equals(list2[j])) {
*return* *true*;
}
}
}
*return* *false*;
}
**
*rule* "Engineering"
*dialect* "mvel"
*when*
**
#conditions
Person( ageInYears >= 18 ) *and*
*eval* ( hasOneOf(Person(tagList), TagCodes(engrTags)) )
*then*
#actions
personActions.addAction("EngineeringGroup");
*
end
*
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