There is a new version of Alfresco Rule Management available. The core purpose of the add-on is to make it easier to work with rules programmatically. For example, using the add-on you can easily convert existing standalone rules to shared rules or move rules from one folder to another.

The new release, 1.1.0, includes a small but handy feature: It adds an API for retrieving a JSON representation of all the rules set on a specified folder. The response includes everything you could ever want to know about the rules, including the conditions, actions, and parameters.

There are a variety of use cases for this. One recent client uses it to index all of their rules into a search engine so they can see how rules are being used across their repository.

As always, if you find an improvement you’d like to see in this add-on, pull requests are welcome.