Rules based policy engine

Steven Kurylo sk at infinitepigeons.org
Fri Jul 18 03:55:47 CEST 2008


> The problem with this is that one needs to think like a programmer to
> describe your "ideal phone" as a set of rules like these. Not only does
> one have to think analytically and dissect their concept into orthogonal,
> machine-checkable rules, but from your examples it's also clear that for
> such a wide range of possibilities a whole *language* with *expressions*
> (at least boolean) is necessary.

I see it as something like sieve.  Its a pretty full language for
writing rules.  I, as a programmer, I do almost anything I want.  For
the non-programmers there are various GUIs which allow you to do all
the simple tasks with a couple clicks.  In fact filter email is fairly
similar: if these three things are true, do X.  Then I have a stack of
rules and it goes through them one at time until one is true.

xpath might work.  There are a few options, though I would try to stay
away from writing our own if it can be helps.  A plan old python class
might be enough with function for each possible condition.




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