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allowUndefinedFacts not working when the facts type are string

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by running the provided reproduction with Engine.run, an empty facts object, and allowUndefinedFacts enabled, then trace how the notEqual operator handles the undefined Astring fact versus the numeric Bnumber fact. Done means the option behaves consistently for both fact types and the reproduction produces the documented expected result.

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Here's my example, you can reproduce the issue with the code:
const customAttributeRule = { "name": "allowUndefinedFacts-test", "attributes": [ { "name": "Astring", "type": "string" }, { "name": "Bnumber", "type": "number" } ], "decisions": [ { "conditions": { "all": [ { "fact": "Astring", "operator": "notEqual", "value": "string" } ] }, "event": { "type": "Astring", "params": { "value": "1", "description": "Astring test" } } }, { "conditions": { "all": [ { "fact": "Bnumber", "operator": "lessThan", "value": 5 } ] }, "event": { "type": "Bnumber", "params": { "value": "1", "description": "Bnumber test" } } } ] }
let facts = {}
const engine = new Engine(customAttributeRule.decisions, {allowUndefinedFacts: true}); engine.on('success', event => { console.log(event) });
let result = engine .run(facts)
The engine output is
{ type: 'Astring', params: { value: '1', description: 'Astring test' } }
However, the allowUndefinedFacts works when then fact type is number

Since the engine treat undefined facts as undefined, so I added another condition that { "fact": "Astring", "operator": "notEqual", "value": "undefined" }, but it still does not work as expected

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