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1. Re: Downcast in bind clause
Andrew Dinn Feb 29, 2012 12:38 PM (in response to Anton Ryabtsev)Hi Anton,
Anton Ryabtsev wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to do downcast in the bind clause of a rule?
At present no. However, I have been thinking for quite a while about providing some sort of support for downcasting.
I have not proposed/implemented anything yet because it's not necessarily clear to me how to provide this capability, in particular how to deal with cast exceptions (it's not trappng these that I am concerned with, rather providing a clean way for rules to cope with the consequences).
So, if you can provide me with some idea of what you want to do, why you want to do it and how you would like it to behave I would be glad to consider this as input to any requirements for an implementation. Community software is supposed to serve a community so any input yoou can provide will be very interesting.
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2. Re: Downcast in bind clause
Shing Hing Man Mar 30, 2012 7:31 AM (in response to Andrew Dinn)I would also like to be able to downcast in the BIND clause.
I am using Byteman as a debugging tool to collect intermediate values of a
long calculation, which is spreaded across several classes.
My current work around is to have the downcasting done in a custom Java class, and this makes my
custom class to depend on the code, which I try to debug. I can live with the above.
But it would be better to do downcast in the BIND clause,as I would have less code to maintain
and less dependency.
Without downcasting, I would have to collect the intermediate values when it is calculated.
This would result in more rules.
In my case, if there is a class cast exception, it is acceptable that it is not catched.