Using Regexp in Drools 5

I've spend waaay too much time on this, so I need to scribble this 'note to self'. I'm working with JBossESB and I have a piece of text in the body of the message. Now if a certain word is found in this text I want to route the message a certain way. This example is based on the simple_cbr quickstart.

1. So let's first take a look how to match a word in a string. To demonstrate how to do this I created this logging rule:

rule "Logging"
    when 
        b: String(this matches "(?i).*Order(.|\n|\r)*" && this matches ".*EST(.|\n|\r)*")
    then
        System.out.println("b=|" + b + "|");
    end

This rule will print out the incoming string if both the words 'Order' and 'EST' are matched.
The (?i) means 'ignore case', .*Order*. means the word 'Order' or 'order' anywhere in the string will be matched, but this will still not work if the string is multi-line (The '.' character does not match the newline character). So to fix that we need to make it .*Order(.|\n)*. Same story for the '\r'. This is the first word match which we can combine with '&&' or '||' with other matches like I did here looking for 'EST'.

2. Finally to push the String from the default place in the ESB message into the rules engine you need to use an object path of "body.'org.jboss.soa.esb.message.defaultEntry'" as shown in the XML fragment taking from a jboss-esb.xml.

<action class="org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.ContentBasedRouter" name="ContentBasedRouter">
    <property name="ruleSet" value="ShippingRules.drl"/>
    <property name="ruleReload" value="true"/>
    <property name="object-paths">
        <object-path esb="body.'org.jboss.soa.esb.message.defaultEntry'" />
    </property>
    <property name="destinations">
        <route-to destination-name="express" service-category="ExpressShipping" service-name="ExpressShippingService"/>
        <route-to destination-name="normal"  service-category="NormalShipping"  service-name="NormalShippingService"/>
    </property>  
</action>

alternatively you can use a path of esb="BODY_CONTENT".