Feature: Test Transaction

The Test Transaction feature provides a mechanism by which the health of drools policy controllers can be tested.

When enabled, the feature functions by injecting an event object (identified by a UUID) into the drools session of each policy controller that is active in the system. Only an object with this UUID can trigger the Test Transaction-specific drools logic to execute.

The injection of the event triggers the “TT” rule (see TestTransactionTemplate.drl below) to fire. The “TT” rule simply increments a ForwardProgress counter object, thereby confirming that the drools session for this particular controller is active and firing its rules accordingly. This cycle repeats at 20 second intervals.

If it is ever the case that a drools controller does not have the “TT” rule present in its .drl, or that the forward progress counter is not incremented, the Test Transaction thread for that particular drools session (i.e. controller) is terminated and a message is logged to error.log.

Prior to being enabled, the following drools rules need to be appended to the rules templates of any use-case that is to be monitored by the feature.

TestTransactionTemplate.drl
 1 /*
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20
21 package org.onap.policy.drools.rules;
22
23 import java.util.EventObject;
24
25 declare ForwardProgress
26     counter : Long
27 end
28
29 rule "TT.SETUP"
30 when
31 then
32     ForwardProgress fp = new ForwardProgress();
33     fp.setCounter(0L);
34     insert(fp);
35 end
36
37 rule "TT"
38 when
39     $fp : ForwardProgress()
40     $tt : EventObject(source == "43868e59-d1f3-43c2-bd6f-86f89a61eea5")
41 then
42     $fp.setCounter($fp.getCounter() + 1);
43     retract($tt);
44 end
45 query "TT.FPC"
46     ForwardProgress(counter >= 0, $ttc : counter)
47 end

Once the proper artifacts are built and deployed with the addition of the TestTransactionTemplate rules, the feature can then be enabled by entering the following commands:

PDPD Features Command
 policy@hyperion-4:/opt/app/policy$ policy stop
 [drools-pdp-controllers]
  L []: Stopping Policy Management... Policy Management (pid=354) is stopping... Policy Management has stopped.
 policy@hyperion-4:/opt/app/policy$ features enable test-transaction
 name                      version         status
 ----                      -------         ------
 controlloop-utils         1.1.0-SNAPSHOT  disabled
 healthcheck               1.1.0-SNAPSHOT  disabled
 test-transaction          1.1.0-SNAPSHOT  enabled
 eelf                      1.1.0-SNAPSHOT  disabled
 state-management          1.1.0-SNAPSHOT  disabled
 active-standby-management 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT  disabled
 session-persistence       1.1.0-SNAPSHOT  disabled

The output of the enable command will indicate whether or not the feature was enabled successfully.

Policy engine can then be started as usual.

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