Rules-call

Description

GreenVulcano^® ESB allows, using the operation rules-call, to invoke a Rule Engine service.

VulCon / GV Console Configuration

Element rules-call is the GreenVulcano^® ESB operation to invoke a Rule Engine service.

The following table shows the rules-call element's attributes:

Attribute	Type	Description
type	fixed	This attribute must assume the value call.
class	fixed	This attribute must assume the value it.greenvulcano.gvesb.gvrules.virtual.RulesCall.
name	required	Operation name. Used in the 'Flow' section to associate workflow nodes to VCL operations.
ruleSet	required	Reference a Rule set.
input-ref-dp	required	Name of Data Provider to be used to prepare the facts to be inserted in the session. This Data Provider (ex. a MapDataProvider) will receive in input a GVBuffer and must return a map of named objects.
globals-ref-dp	optional	Name of Data Provider to be used to prepare the objects to be inserted as Globals in the session. This Data Provider (ex. a MapDataProvider) will receive in input a GVBuffer and must return a map of named objects. If the name of some Globals start with "OUT" then those object are inserted in a map and passed as #input to the output-ref-dp Data Provider.
output-ref-dp	optional	Name of Data Provider to use for rules output manipulation. This Data Provider will receive as context a GVBuffer and as input the rules ExecutionResults or the Globals objects map (see globals-ref-dp) and must return an enriched GVBuffer object. Ex.a GVBufferChangeDataProvider instance. If not defined the rules ExecutionResults or the Globals objects map (see globals-ref-dp) are inserted in the output GVBuffer object field.

Its subelements are:

• Description
• ServiceAlias