You need a way to differentiate between policy's that have been updated and 
that haven't been updated.
If you have control of your model then you could add an extra field, either as 
a flag or containing the new value - if this field is null you know you need to 
update it.
If you can't change that part of the model you can introduce a new class 
PolicyUpdated(Service policy). When you update the policy you insert one of 
these. You then change your conditions to add "not PolicyUpdated(policy == 
$policy)" which will then stop you retriggering yourself. Finally you need to 
tell drools that you have modified Client.
It may be more efficient to actually fetch and insert the policy service 
objects into the working memory, then you only need to tell drools/your rules 
that you have updated one small part of your rules rather than getting it to 
reiterate over all the services every update.

Thomas


From: rules-users-boun...@lists.jboss.org 
[mailto:rules-users-boun...@lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Wishing Carebear
Sent: 06 July 2011 04:47
To: Rules Users List
Subject: [rules-users] How to update the working memory of a nested object 
attribute

Hi,
My rules update the nested object attributes :eligibilityScore which is used in 
another rule downstream.

Only the Client object is sent as fact, the nested object is derived using the 
from keyword (list of services)

rule  "Rule 8 EligibilityRating"
    agenda-group  "EligibilityRating"
    no-loop true
    salience 5
    //dialect  "mvel"
    when
        $client : Client(type == "Preferred")
        $policy : Service(productType == "Vehicle Insurance") from 
$client.service
    then
        System.out.println(" Rule 8 ER = type == preferred:"+ $policy.getId() + 
": -50");
        int eScore = $policy.getEligibilityScore() - 50;
        $policy.setEligibilityScore(eScore); // how to let the downstream rule 
know that this atribute value is updated without letting this current rule go 
into infinite loop
end

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated

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