One way it has been done in the past is to have some rule with a higher salience take that "root" object and "explode" it into the children objects (as deep as needed).
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:01 AM, gazzaaa87 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am using a StatelessKnowledgeSession and therefore call the execute > method > to invoke the rules engine. Having carried out a basic test, it would > appear > that calling execute on an arbitrarily complex object does not insert child > objects, rather rules will only fire if they are based on the parent. > > e.g. let's say you have a class called 'Father', which holds a collection > of > 'Child' objects. By calling session.execute(fatherObject) I need rules to > fire that use the Child pattern without having to loop through 'insert'ing > all the child elements manually. > > Has anyone come across a way around this? The only thing I managed to find > was the use of a Batch Executor but you have to set that up before calling > execute and therefore it's still effectively a manual process. > > If only Drools used java annotations, it would be ideal to specify > behaviour > similar to cascade with JPA. > > Any help or pointers much appreciated! > > Dan > -- > View this message in context: > http://n3.nabble.com/Executing-on-a-arbitrarily-complex-object-tp187271p187271.html > Sent from the Drools - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev > -- Michael D Neale home: www.michaelneale.net blog: michaelneale.blogspot.com
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