Hello everybody, I recently started using Drools (with C#) and I have some problems in understanding how temporal operators work with the duration field. According to the documentation, the temporal operators work with startTimestamp and endTimestamp of events, the semantics being defined with inequalities. In order to work, temporal operator requires the duration field to be declared. Now the questions: 1. What does @timeStamp stay for? The start or the end timestamp? 2. Does Drools calculate startTimestamp and endTimestamp if I set @timeStamp and @duration attribute from my C# code? If not how can I set them? (like shall I declare like @startTimeStamp(sth) and set from the C# code?) 3. Do temporal operators work if I do not set explicitly the start and end timestamps but just @timeStamp and @duration attributes?
In particular, I have this drl file (%VAR% are replaced by other code): declare IntensionalEvent @role(event) @timeStamp(timeStamp) @duration(duration) end rule "Expression (%EVENTNAME1%, %OPERATOR%, %EVENTNAME2%, %TIMESPAN%, %TIMEVAR%)" dialect "mvel" when $eventA : IntensionalEvent( name == '%EVENTNAME2%' ) $eventB : IntensionalEvent( this %OPERATOR% $eventA, name == '%EVENTNAME1%' ) over window:time( %TIMESPAN% ) then blah blah... create an IntensionalEvent and set timestamp and duration end Thanks everybody, Gil -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Duration-attritube-and-Temporal-Operators-tp3810201p3810201.html Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users