Jsr94 and JBoss Rules using DSL

[cmathrusse]

I'm using the Spring Modules 0.8 release to integrate JBoss Rules via the JSR94 classes. Everything was surprisingly simple to get wired together and working, but now I am faced with an issue using DSL files. I was able to successfully load a drl file without any issues, but now I want to load both the drl and a dsl. Looking at some of the sample classes provided with the drools examples I need to pass both these files off to the PackageBuilder via an overloaded method, addPackageFromDrl.

builder.addPackageFromDrl( drl, dsl );

How can I do this via the Spring module classes?

Thanks for the help...

[cmathrusse]

After stepping through the code a bit I learned that the Spring class
LocalRuleExecutionSetProviderImpl is looking for the key dsl in the properties
object that is passed in and that it expects the value object in the hash table
to be either a java.io.Reader or a String object containing the contents of the
dsl file. So I modified my configuration to pass in an instance of Reader for
the dsl file.

So I created a simple class, ReasourceAsReader, that is a FactoryBean that converts a Resource to a java.io.Reader. I then assigned this bean to the hashtable that is passed into the DefaultRuleSource as follows:

  <bean id="ruleSource" class="org.springmodules.jsr94.rulesource.DefaultRuleSource">
    <property name="ruleRuntime">
      <ref local="ruleRuntime" />
    </property>
    <property name="ruleAdministrator">
      <ref local="ruleAdministrator" />
    </property>
    <property name="source">
      <value>classpath:com/sybase/it/cosmos/rules/order-release.drl</value>
    </property>
    <property name="bindUri">
      <value>autoRelease</value>
    </property>
    
    <property name="rulesetProperties">
      <map key-type="java.lang.String" value-type="java.lang.String">      
        <entry key="dsl"> 
          <bean class="com.sybase.it.cosmos.spring.ResourceReader">
            <property name="source">
<value>classpath:/com/sybase/it/cosmos/rules/order-release.dsl</value>
            </property>
          </bean>
        </entry>
      </map>    
    </property>
  </bean

The code for the FactoryBean is as follows:

import org.springframework.beans.factory.FactoryBean;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
import org.springframework.core.io.support.EncodedResource;

public class ResourceReader implements FactoryBean, InitializingBean {
  
  private Resource source = null;
  private java.io.Reader reader = null;
  
  public void setSource(Resource source) {
    this.source = source;
  }
  public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {
    if(source == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Resource cannot be null!");
    }
        
    EncodedResource er = new EncodedResource(source);
    reader = er.getReader();
  }
  public Object getObject() throws Exception {
    return reader;
  }
  public Class getObjectType() {
    return java.io.Reader.class;
  }
  public boolean isSingleton() {
    return true;
  }
}

Now the dsl file is loaded but I'm receiving the following exception:

Caused by: 
org.drools.rule.InvalidRulePackage:
org.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 993028org.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 128b33aorg.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 10ea988org.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 19c4844org.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 14c8f24org.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 1498526org.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 1c4a760org.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 1c8ce14org.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 51b326org.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 1c8997eorg.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> d54d3forg.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 1c26386org.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 1140cf6org.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 15efa6aorg.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 8a750aorg.drools.lang.ExpanderException
 <at> 9e6e0org.drools.lang.ExpanderException <at> 14b389
	at org.drools.rule.Package.checkValidity(Package.java:368)

Any ideas as to what might be causing this?

Thanks for the help...

[Tom Trommelaar]

I came accross the same problem as you are having and after some debugging, it seems like a bug in Drools. The problem is that drools does not output the exceptions correctly when the error is an ExpanderException. It seems that this is because they forgot to implement toString() on that class.

To work around this and see the errors, set a breakpoint on the toString() method of PackageBuilderErrors. Via debugging you should then be able to navigate through an array of DroolsError objects and call getMessage() on each one to see the error message.

[pintail]

Hi,

We just got the same problem and your suggestion works!
Thx cmathrusse.

[Tom Trommelaar]

I don't even remember having this problem But I'm glad I could be of help