Hi,
I am using Drools 4.0.7, and I had a DRL rule similar to the following:
rule "..."
when
other : Foo( )
x : Bar( ) from other.property
then
...
end
An unexpected bug occured. In some situations, other.property would _not_ be
of type Bar, yet Drools would still think that it was. As a result I was
getting some unusual exceptions being thrown: "org.mvel.CompileException:
unable to resolve property: ..."
If I changed the rule to:
x : Bar( ) from other.property
eval ( x instanceof Bar )
It would instead throw a ClassCastException (i.e. "Baz cannot be cast into
Bar").
If, instead, I changed the rule to:
x : Bar( other.property == x )
It would start working correctly, and 'x' would only be of type Bar.
Is this known behaviour? Is it expected? If so, I would appreciate it if the
4.0.7 documentation was updated to reflect that "from" actually ignores the
return type of properties. It took me a couple of hours to detect and fix
this bug.
I would try these rules in Drools 5.x, but I'm still waiting for the
blocking JBRULES-2218 to be resolved.
Cheers
Jevon
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