Drools: how to use abbreviated condition notation together with further conditions? - drools

Question

Using Drools 6.5.0.Final
I want to use abbreviated combined relation condition (e.g. Person( age > 30 && < 40 )) in combination with additional conditions.
I tried it, but the resulting rules are executed more than once.
I have a small example, where temperature deviation from a setpoint is checked and the allowed deviations depend on the setpoint. The allowed deviations are configured with Param facts, see below.
If I execute the example (fire-all-rules):
rule 1 fires two times (bug?)
rule 2 fires once as expected (without abbreviated notation).
Is my usage of the abbreviated notation wrong or is this a bug?
Example rules:
declare Param
from : float
to : float
low : float
high : float
end
declare TemperatureEvent
#role( event )
id : String
setpoint : float
t : float
end
rule "Init abbreviated conditions test"
when
then
insert(new Param(0, 10, 1, 1));
insert(new Param(10,20, 2, 3));
insert(new TemperatureEvent("id1", 13.7f,11.5f));
// rule 1 and rule 2 should fire exactly once
end
rule "rule 1"
when
$p: Param()
$x : TemperatureEvent($p.from <= setpoint && < $p.to, (t < setpoint+$p.low || t > setpoint+$p.high))
then
System.out.println("rule 1: "+$x.getId()+" "+$x.getSetpoint()+" "+$x.getT());
end
rule "rule 2"
when
$p: Param()
$x : TemperatureEvent($p.from <= setpoint, setpoint < $p.to, (t < setpoint+$p.low || t > setpoint+$p.high))
then
System.out.println("rule 2: "+$x.getId()+" "+$x.getSetpoint()+" "+$x.getT());
end

Answer 1

The abbreviated restriction
$p.from <= setpoint && < $p.to
is equivalent to
$p.from <= setpoint && $p.from < $p.to
What you want is
setpoint >= $p.from && < $p.to