Is there any API in drools to create the drl files dynamically by just passing values?

Question

I know how to create DRL files inside KIE workbench by using all the methods. But what my problem is without using the KIE workbench, can we create the .drl file by using our required values.If any possibility is there please suggest me. Same way suggest me any API is regarding to that. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use Drools Fluent API. Try below sample code :

package com.sample;

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;

import org.drools.lang.DrlDumper;
import org.drools.lang.api.DescrFactory;
import org.drools.lang.descr.PackageDescr;

@SuppressWarnings("restriction")
public class Drl_Creator {
    public static void main(String str[]){
        PackageDescr pkg = DescrFactory.newPackage()
                   .name("org.drools.example")
                   .newRule().name("Xyz")
                       .attribute("ruleflow-grou","bla")
                   .lhs()
                       .and()
                           .pattern("Foo").id( "$foo", false ).constraint("bar==baz").constraint("x>y").end()
                           .not().pattern("Bar").constraint("a+b==c").end().end()
                       .end()
                   .end()
                   .rhs( "System.out.println();" ).end()
                   .getDescr();
        DrlDumper dumper=new DrlDumper();
        String drl=dumper.dump(pkg);
        System.out.print(drl);
        try{
            // create new file
            File file = new File("src/main/rules/test.drl");
            file.createNewFile();
            FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(file.getAbsoluteFile());
            BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw);
            bw.write(drl);
            // close connection
            bw.close();
            System.out.println("File Created Successfully");
         }catch(Exception e){
             System.out.println(e);
         }
    }
}

Answer 2

I interpret your question in two different ways.

1. Is it possible to write rules for Drools without using the KIE workbench?

Yes, it should support importing rules so all you need to do is open up a text editor and start typing. The rules are written as text using a fairly simple syntax that you can figure out in about 1-2 hours of reading. I do not know what your environment looks like but there should be a mechanism to parse and import a new rule. All rules you write will start out in a text editor looking like this:

rule "<name>"
    <attribute>
when
    <conditional element>
then
    <action>
end

You will add to the conditions and actions. Of course you will have to know what conditions you can create which is limited to your environment and likewise for the actions.

2. Is it possible to create rules and use them programatically through some sort of API?

Yes, I do it all of the time for the processing we do using the Java API. We have 2 types of rules that we use, static and dynamic. The static ones have pre-canned conditions and are written to perform the same comparisons (LHS) over and over and performing the same actions each time the conditions are met (RHS). The dynamic ones are created on the fly based upon a minimalistic set of object types and comparisons (LHS) specified by the user when they are created. The actions (RHS) are pre-canned but are selected for use depending on the need for the overall rule use. The entire rule is created as text then passed to the Drools parser before being added to the list of rules to evaluate.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Another option is to use the "descr" APIs, starting from the factory:

org.drools.compiler.lang.api.DescrFactory

These APIs build the Drools AST, which can be passed directly to the compiler, bypassing the parser. The AST can also be used to recreate DRL, using the helper class org.drools.compiler.lang.DrlDumper