Rules based policy engine
Matt Joyce
matt.joyce at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 04:23:24 CEST 2008
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Steven Kurylo <sk at infinitepigeons.org>
wrote:
> > 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.
>
Sieve - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language)
xpath - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPath
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