Both with 5.4.0 and 5.3.0 I can't reproduce the effect described by Ladd. The inserts are of two Messages with Object body set to Person("..."). Knowledge Base is configured STREAM, but Message isn't an event. -W
On 14/07/2012, Ladd <l...@codemettle.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply Mark! However, in my test situation I'm never sending > Person objects, only Message objects. The payload of the message contains > the Person object. In my application there will be other types of payload > objects though. > > In my test, Rule1a looks for messages containing persons: > >> rule += "rule rule1a salience 100 \n"; >> rule += " when \n"; >> rule += " $m : Message( body.class == Person.class, $body : body ) \n"; >> >> rule += " $p : Person() from $body \n"; >> rule += " then \n"; >> rule += " System.err.println( \"rule1a: Just found person \" + >> $p.getName() ); \n"; >> rule += "end\n"; > > I tried your suggestion and rule1b never fired because Person never exists > in memory (only messages that contain persons). > > My goal is to have a "catchall" rule that catches all messages that haven't > been "caught" by other rules. So every message in evaluates at least one > rule to true. I figured rule with constraint "when Message()" with a low > salience would do that. Since 1a and 1b both evaluate to true in my test, > I > figured adjusting the salience would adjust the firing order. > > Thanks for any insight you can offer!!! > > - Ladd > > -- > View this message in context: > http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Why-does-it-seem-like-salience-is-being-ignored-tp4018669p4018682.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 > _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users