Mandarax's Improvement Direction (from Mandarax Mailist)

From: Sabari Passing Collection of Objects and Multiple Arguments 2004-01-12 08:05 Hi,

We prefer to use mandarax as the rule engine in ou

Hospital Information System. To Begin With, We Have

Some FundamNetal Doubts Regarding The IMPLEMetation.

WE EXPECT YOR ADVICE for the Follwing Doubts.

1) Can We Pass a group of objects in a collection to

The Query? Say a Collection of Customer Objects.

WE Have Situations Similar To, Hundreds of Customer

Instances Which Go Through The Rule Checks and ONLY

Valid Customers Need To Be Returned (by querying the

Knowledgebase. So Here a Collection of Customers

Are Passed and a Collection of Valid Customers (May Be

A Collection of Valid Discounts Returned.

2) How can we pass Multiple arguments in to the

Inference Engine At Query Time?

Say I Want to Pass Both Customer Object, And His

TURN_OVER_OBJECT. is there any limited to the

NUMBER OF ARGUMENTS? Can We Pass An Object Array? and

IF SO, What Should Be Their Order?

3) TO Access The Member Variables of the Passing

Object We need to create Separate Jfunctions for Each

MEMBER. THIS A TEDIOS Process. Is there any other

Simple Alternative? WE Want to Access The VALUES JUST

By Specifying The Class Name and ITS Member Variables

Name.

Thanks,

Sabarinathan.