/* * This project is licensed under the MIT license. Module model-view-viewmodel is using ZK framework licensed under LGPL (see lgpl-3.0.txt). * * The MIT License * Copyright © 2014-2022 Ilkka Seppälä * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN * THE SOFTWARE. */ package com.iluwatar.ruleengine; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import java.util.Objects; /** * Orchestrates a fixed collection of {@link Rule rules} against a context. * *
The engine owns the coordination logic that would otherwise live in a large nested {@code * if}/{@code else} block: it evaluates every rule in insertion order, runs the action of each rule * whose condition is satisfied, and reports the combined outcome as a {@link RuleEngineResult}. * Evaluation never stops early, so a single run reports all failing rules rather than only * the first, which is what makes rejection reasons useful. * *
The rule collection is copied defensively on construction, making the engine immutable and
* safe to reuse across many contexts. New behaviour is added by supplying additional {@link Rule}
* implementations; the engine itself never changes.
*
* @param