caring/grules

A simple, but expandable, rules engine for Go

Introduction

This package was created with inspiration from Thomas' go-ruler to run a simple set of rules against an entity.

This version includes a couple more features including, AND and OR composites and the ability to add custom comparators.

Note: This package only compares two types: string and float64, this plays nicely with encoding/json.

Example

// Create a new instance of an engine with some default comparators
e, err := NewJSONEngine(json.RawMessage(`{"composites":[{"operator":"or","rules":[{"comparator":"always-false","path":"user.name","value":"Trevor"},{"comparator":"eq","path":"user.name","value":"Trevor"}]}]}`))
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

// Add a new, custom comparator
e = e.AddComparator("always-false", func(a, b interface{}) bool {
    return false
})

// Give some properties, this map can be deeper and supports interfaces
props := map[string]interface{}{
    "user": map[string]interface{}{
        "name": "Trevor",
    }
}

// Run the engine on the props
res := e.Evaluate(props)
// res == true

Comparators

• eq will return true if a == b
• neq will return true if a != b
• lt will return true if a < b
• lte will return true if a <= b
• gt will return true if a > b
• gte will return true if a >= b
• contains will return true if a contains b
• oneof will return true if a is one of b
• regex will return true if a matches b

contains is different than oneof in that contains expects the first argument to be a slice, and oneof expects the second argument to be a slice.

Benchmarks

Benchmark	N	Speed	Used	Allocs
BenchmarkEqual-12	1000000000	5.22 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkNotEqual-12	2000000000	3.77 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkLessThan-12	2000000000	2.20 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkLessThanEqual-12	2000000000	1.95 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkGreaterThan-12	5000000000	1.95 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkGreaterThanEqual-12	2000000000	1.97 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkRegex-12	10000000	712 ns/op	740 B/op	11 allocs/op
BenchmarkRegexPhone-12	1000000	3025 ns/op	3192 B/op	30 allocs/op
BenchmarkContains-12	1000000000	5.66 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkContainsLong50000-12	30000	157679 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkNotContains-12	500000000	11.5 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkNotContainsLong50000-12	30000	157437 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkOneOf-12	500000000	0.53 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkNoneOf-12	500000000	0.53 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkPluckShallow-12	100000000	42.4 ns/op	16 B/op	1 allocs/op
BenchmarkPluckDeep-12	30000000	174 ns/op	112 B/op	1 allocs/op
BenchmarkRule_evaluate-12	100000000	51.7 ns/op	16 B/op	1 allocs/op
BenchmarkComposite_evaluate-12	100000000	58.9 ns/op	16 B/op	1 allocs/op
BenchmarkEngine_Evaluate-12	100000000	69.9 ns/op	16 B/op	1 allocs/op

To run benchmarks:

go test -run none -bench . -benchtime 3s -benchmem

All benchmarks were run on:

MacOS High Sierra 2.6Ghz Intel Core i7 16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

License

Copyright © 2019 Trevor Hutto

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this work except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License in the LICENSE file, or at:

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.