Custom BOM Properties

domainValueProviderName 

Class 

String 

Name of the extension point defined to integrate a BOM domain value provider. This property must be set on a class that defines a dynamic domain. 

valueInfo 

Attribute 

String 

Key of a registered value info.  

The value info is associated with the navigation phrase and the argument placeholder of the action phrase associated with this attribute in the vocabulary. 

valueInfo[arg] 

Method 

String 

Key of a registered value info. This value info is associated with the argument arg of the method. 

constraint[arg] 

Method 

Number 

Expresses a constraint between two value infos associated with two arguments of a method. The placeholder for arg1 is constrained by the placeholder arg2. 

valueDescriptor 

Class 

String 

Key of a registered value descriptor for this class. 

valueEditor 

Class 

String 

Key of a registered value editor for this class. 

sortIndex 

Static Reference 

Number 

Allows setting an order among static references when used in business rule editors. 

Note that if the sorting is locale-specific, it should be specified in the vocabulary file. 

For example, Day of week Monday can be set in the first position in the boot vocabulary file as follows: 

ilog.rules.brl.DayOfWeek.Monday#label = Monday 

ilog.rules.brl.DayOfWeek.Monday#sortIndex = 1 

valueType 

Class 

Boolean 

Allows considering a BOM type as a pure value type. Pure value types are excluded from the rule language, so that you cannot define binding on them. It is the case of all predefined types, like Number, String, Date, and so on. 

valueTranslator 

Class 

String 

Key of a registered value translator for this class. 

defaultValue 

Class 

String 

Defines the text to be displayed when this member is inserted into the Intellirule Editor. For example, the defaultValue for a String is double quotes "". 

noTruncation 

Method 

Boolean 

When set to true, phrases in the Guided editor drop-down lists are not truncated. For example, the phrase is between becomes is between <a number> and <a number>. 

alias 

Class 

String 

Used by decision table and trees to activate syntax checking and the automatic fill-in feature. 

On user types that behave like numbers, the possible values are integer or float. 

hiddenType 

Class 

Boolean 

Used to filter the class from IRL code completion. Usually used to tag a BOM class only used by the vocabulary. 

excludeFromPrediction 

Any 

Boolean 

Used to exclude the corresponding element from the completion menu of business rule editors. 

DecoratedValueDescriptor.suffix 

DecoratedValueDescriptor.prefix 

Class 

String 

When set on a class, allows you to specify a suffix or a prefix to a value. Must be used with a decorated value descriptor, designated by the following property:  

property valueDescriptor "<type>#Decorated(<decorated type>)"  

In the following example, literal values of Day types are Numbers with a suffix of d:  

package ilog.rules.brl;  

public class Days  

property valueDescriptor "ilog.rules.brl.Days#Decorated(ilog.rules.brl.Number)"  

property "DecoratedValueDescriptor.suffix" "d" 

valueTranslator 

Class 

String 

With or without the suffix .irl, attached to a class to specify a value translator class. 

translation 

Any 

String 

With or without the suffix .irl, specified on a class or a member to indicate a custom translation code template, or legacy translation properties. 

Style 

Any 

String 

Applies graphical styling in the BAL rule editor. Used as follows: 

The graphical rendering of a style is specified in the language properties files (bal.properties for the BAL language). A style defines a combination of font, font attributes (bold/italic/underline), and background and foreground colors. 

semanticAction[arg] 

Member 

String 

An action applied when building the syntax tree. The action is invoked to fill the syntax tree with semantic information. 

When building the syntax tree, the actions are invoked from bottom to top and from left to right. 

A semantic action is an implementation of the abstract class ilog.rules.brl.semantic.IlrBRLSemanticAction and can be declared using semanticAction[arg]. You can attach a semantic action to the 'this' of this method by using the semanticAction[this] property. 

leadingThisSemanticFilter 

Method 

String 

A type of semantic filter (see semanticFilter) invoked on a sentence that has a place holder in the first position. For example: <object> is null 

The sentence has a place holder in the first position, so this semantic filter can be applied to check if the sentence "is null" can be predicted on the object in the first position. For example, if you do not want to predict "is null" on a value type. The syntax tree node that represents the object is given in the context of the filter. 

This property is an implementation of ilog.rules.brl.semantic.IlrBRLLeadingSemanticFilter. 

propagateAssignableArgumentType 

Method 

Boolean 

This property applies to a method with at least one argument. Like propagateArgumentType, but there is no assigned order to the propagation. The property implies that arguments of a sentence must be subtypes.  

For example, if you apply the property to the sentence <object1> is <object2>, the <object2> type is a subtype of the <object1> type, or the <object1> type is a subtype of the <object2> type. In this case the property is applied to all the roles of the sentence (from the first, to all). 

This property can be specified on Object.is(Object) to propagate the type 'this' to the method argument. 

propagateArgumentType 

Method 

Boolean 

This property must be attached to a method with at least one argument.  

Used for Business Rule languages, this property allows you to propagate the type of the first role (the 'this') to all arguments of the methods. Arguments of the method must be of 'this' type or a subclass.  

For example, if this property is attached to Object.is(Object), then arguments of this method must be an instance of a subclass of the object on which the method is called.