geirolz / erules   0.0.9

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A simple purely functional engine to evaluate rules

Scala versions: 3.x 2.13

Erules

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A lightweight, simple, typed and functional rules engine evaluator using cats core.

How to import

eRules supports Scala 2.13 and 3

Sbt

  libraryDependencies += "com.github.geirolz" %% "erules-core" % "0.0.9"

Glossary

  • Rule = the definition of a rule, the check is pure and can be async. Each Rule must have a description. Each rule can have a targetInfo that is a string that describe the rule check target.
  • RuleVerdict = Is the verdict of a rule, can be Allow, Deny or Ignore. Each kind of verdict can have 0 or more reasons.
  • RuleResult = The rule result is just a case class to couple the Rule with is result RuleVerdict and some other information like the execution time.
  • EngineVerdict = Same as RuleVerdict but related to the whole engine. Can be Allowed or Denied

How to use

Given these data classes

case class Country(value: String)
case class Age(value: Int)

case class Citizenship(country: Country)
case class Person(
  name: String,
  lastName: String,
  age: Age,
  citizenship: Citizenship
)

Assuming we want to check:

  • The person is adult
  • The person has a UK citizenship

Let's write the rules!

import erules.core.Rule
import erules.core.RuleVerdict.*
import cats.data.NonEmptyList
import cats.Id

val checkCitizenship: Rule[Id, Citizenship] =
  Rule("Check UK citizenship").apply[Id, Citizenship]{
    case Citizenship(Country("UK")) => Allow.withoutReasons
    case _                          => Deny.because("Only UK citizenship is allowed!")
  }
// checkCitizenship: Rule[Id, Citizenship] = RuleImpl(<function1>,Check UK citizenship,None,None)

val checkAdultAge: Rule[Id, Age] =
  Rule("Check Age >= 18").apply[Id, Age] {
    case a: Age if a.value >= 18  => Allow.withoutReasons
    case _                        => Deny.because("Only >= 18 age are allowed!")
  }
// checkAdultAge: Rule[Id, Age] = RuleImpl(<function1>,Check Age >= 18,None,None)

val allPersonRules: NonEmptyList[Rule[Id, Person]] = NonEmptyList.of(
  checkCitizenship
    .targetInfo("citizenship")
    .contramap(_.citizenship),
  checkAdultAge
    .targetInfo("age")
    .contramap(_.age)
)
// allPersonRules: NonEmptyList[Rule[Id, Person]] = NonEmptyList(RuleImpl(scala.Function1$$Lambda$15987/0x0000000803641980@60340e78,Check UK citizenship,None,Some(citizenship)), RuleImpl(scala.Function1$$Lambda$15987/0x0000000803641980@7247d092,Check Age >= 18,None,Some(age)))

N.B. Importing even the erules-generic you can use macro to auto-generate the target info using contramapTarget method. contramapTarget apply contramap and derive the target info by the contramap parameter. The contramap parameter must be inline and have the following form: _.bar.foo.test.

Once we defied rules we just need to create the RuleEngine to evaluate that rules.

We can evaluate rules in two different ways:

  • denyAllNotAllowed
  • allowAllNotDenied
import erules.core.*
import erules.implicits.*
import cats.effect.IO
import cats.effect.unsafe.implicits.*

val person: Person = Person("Mimmo", "Rossi", Age(16), Citizenship(Country("IT")))
// person: Person = Person(Mimmo,Rossi,Age(16),Citizenship(Country(IT)))

val result: IO[EngineResult[Person]]  = for {
  engine <- RulesEngine[IO].withRules[Id, Person](allPersonRules).denyAllNotAllowed
  result <- engine.parEval(person)
} yield result
// result: IO[EngineResult[Person]] = IO(...)

//yolo
result.unsafeRunSync().asReport[String]
// res0: String = ###################### ENGINE VERDICT ######################
// 
// Data: Person(Mimmo,Rossi,Age(16),Citizenship(Country(IT)))
// Rules: 2
// Interpreter verdict: Denied
// 
// ------------ Check UK citizenship for citizenship -----------
// - Rule: Check UK citizenship
// - Description: 
// - Target: citizenship
// - Execution time: 80875 nanoseconds
// 
// - Verdict: Right(Deny)
// - Because: Only UK citizenship is allowed!
// ------------------------------------------------------------
// ------------------ Check Age >= 18 for age -----------------
// - Rule: Check Age >= 18
// - Description: 
// - Target: age
// - Execution time: 7833 nanoseconds
// 
// - Verdict: Right(Deny)
// - Because: Only >= 18 age are allowed!
// ------------------------------------------------------------
// 
// 
// ############################################################

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