Rules Engine Editor

Editor for Microsoft Rules Engine - Blazor UI library intended for integration in Web or Desktop

Overview

Rules Engine Editor is a library/NuGet package for use with Microsoft Rules Engine which itself is a package for abstracting business logic/rules/policies out of a system.

Installation

To install this library, download the latest version of NuGet Package from nuget.org.

How to use it

There are several ways to populate workflows for the Rules Engine Editor as listed below.

Rules are based on the Microsoft Rules Engine schema definition and can be stored in anything deemed appropriate like Azure Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, Azure App Configuration, Entity Framework, SQL Servers, file systems etc. For RuleExpressionType LamdaExpression, the rule is written as a lambda expressions.

The Rules Engine Editor can also use a format for Input Rule Parameters based on the schema defintiion and can likewise be stored as the aforementioned workflow schema. Input Rule Parameters allow the seeding of arbitrary input data to be used in the Rules Engine. Consider Input Rule Parameters like interactive "unit tests" which allow for "What-If" type analysis.

Live Demo

WebAssembly

https://alexreich.github.io/RulesEngineEditor

This can also be installed as a standalone PWA and used offline.

With Sample Data

https://alexreich.github.io/RulesEngineEditor/demo

Features

Works in conjunction with Microsoft Rules Engine
Real-time evaluation
Add, Edit, Delete in form view, JSON or switch between them
Drag, Drop objects to change order
Nested Rule support
Import, Download compliant Workflow json
Import, Download compliant Input Rule Parameter json
Design Time Support:
- Pass pre-constructed instance of Rules Engine
- Supports 2-way binding of Workflows
- "Starter" Input Rule Parameter JSON
Allows for non-supported types in Rules Engine Workflow JSON

Usage

Simple:

<RulesEngineEditorPage />

Complex:

<RulesEngineEditorPage EditorRulesEngine="re" @bind-Workflows="Workflows" InputJSON="@Inputs" />

Complex (EF Supported):

<RulesEngineEditorPage EditorRulesEngine="re" @bind-WorkflowDatas="WorkflowDatas" InputJSON="@Inputs" />

Install

Blazor WebAssembly / Client-side Blazor

In Program.cs add

builder.Services.AddRulesEngineEditor();

In _Imports.razor

@using RulesEngineEditor.Pages

Add relevant styles, either add css included to site.css or inside the <head> element of wwwroot/index.html with the following statements:

<link href="_content/RulesEngineEditor/css/reeditor.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="_content/RulesEngineEditor/css/dragdrop.css" rel="stylesheet" />

Server-side Blazor

In Startup.cs add

services.AddRulesEngineEditor();

In _Imports.razor

@using RulesEngineEditor.Pages

Add relevant styles, either add css included to site.css or inside the <head> element of Pages/_Host.cshtml with the following statements:

<link href="_content/RulesEngineEditor/css/reeditor.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="_content/RulesEngineEditor/css/dragdrop.css" rel="stylesheet" />

Entity Framework Demo Setup

Ensure SQL Express is set up
c:\> sqllocaldb
Create an instance of the test database
>sqllocaldb c "RulesEngineEditorDB" -s
Open Package Manager Console (View > Other Windows > Package Manager Console)
Add-Migration init
Update-Database

Suppress top level Buttons

Any/all of the following menu buttons can explicitly disabled:
NewWorkflows, DownloadWorkflows, ImportWorkflows, AddWorkflow, NewInputs, DownloadInputs, ImportInputs, AddInput
See DemoEF for example usage.

What's Next

Support for more types (ActionInfo, RuleActions, etc.)
Continued synchronization with releases of Microsoft Rules Engine
Support for .NET 6, Blazor Desktop

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