Raising events in KRL without using explicit - krl

Question

I'm writing an app that raises events, similar to how Phil Windley's personal data manager application works. However, if I try to use any event domain but explicit, the events don't get propagated. The following rules work fine with explicit as the domain, but not with driverreg.
rule driver_info_submit {
select when web pageview ".*"
pre {
driver_name = "Joe Driver";
driver_phone = "111-555-1212";
msg = <<
Current driver info: #{ent:driver_name}, #{ent:driver_phone}
>>;
}
notify("Started", msg);
fired {
raise explicit event new_driver_data with driver_name=driver_name and driver_phone=driver_phone;
}
}
// Save driver name
rule save_driver_name {
select when explicit new_driver_data
pre {
driver_name = event:param("driver_name") || ent:driver_name;
driver_phone = event:param("driver_phone") || ent:driver_phone;
}
noop();
always {
set ent:driver_name driver_name;
set ent:driver_phone driver_phone;
raise explicit event driver_data_updated;
}
}
rule driver_info_updated {
select when explicit driver_data_updated
{
notify("Driver name", ent:driver_name);
notify("Driver phone", ent:driver_phone);
}
}
It doesn't seem to be a problem with whether the app is deployed, as I've tried it both ways. What am I missing?

Answer 1

Only certain domains are allowed as domains in the raise statement:
explicit
http
system
notification
error
pds
This may be relaxed in the future.
This is covered in the documents here: https://kynetxdoc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/docs/Raising+Explicit+Events+in+the+Postlude
(note that this is a temporary home for the documentation)