[CLIPS][JAVA]How to acquire string from console and insert inputs

I'm developing a little expert-system with Clips and Java using Clipsjni. I've encountered a problem and I can't find a solution online, so I'm asking to You. I want to put the output of the function clips.run() in a JLable becouse I need to use java swing and I want to put the input from a TextBox and not from the console.

Here's an example of a program that runs normally with the console:

import net.sf.clipsrules.jni.Environment;

public class Example {

    public static Environment clips = new Environment();
    public static void main (String[] args)
    {
        clips.load("hello.clp");
        clips.reset();
        clips.run();
    }
}

And this is my Hello.clp:

(defrule question
=>
(printout t "How old are you?" crlf)
(assert (age (read)))
)

this is what i get from the system console:

How old are you? 12

So I want " How old are you? " to be saved in a String type and put the "12" from a string. How can I solve this? Hoping for your help!

Solution

Rather than placing strings that will be seen by the user directly within the rules, use facts instead.

CLIPS> 
(deftemplate question
  (slot id)
  (slot text))
CLIPS>   
(deftemplate value
  (slot id)
  (slot value))
CLIPS>   
(defrule ask-question
  (question (id ?id)
            (text ?text))
  =>
  (printout t ?text " ")
  (assert (value (id ?id) (value (read)))))
CLIPS> (assert (question (id age) (text "How old are you?")))
<Fact-1>
CLIPS> (run)
How old are you? 44
CLIPS> (facts)
f-0     (initial-fact)
f-1     (question (id age) (text "How old are you?"))
f-2     (value (id age) (value 44))
For a total of 3 facts.
CLIPS> (reset)
CLIPS> (assert (question (id age) (text "Wie alt sind Sie?")))
<Fact-1>
CLIPS> (run)
Wie alt sind Sie? 44
CLIPS> (facts)
f-0     (initial-fact)
f-1     (question (id age) (text "Wie alt sind Sie?"))
f-2     (value (id age) (value 44))
For a total of 3 facts.
CLIPS>

In CLIPSJNI, you can use the assertString function to assert facts into CLIPS from your Swing application. For example, here's a snippet from the WineDemo example included with CLIPSJNI:

clips.assertString("(attribute (name sauce) (value unknown))");

Use the fact query functions to extract information from facts. For example, here's a snippet from the SudokoDemo example included with CLIPSJNI:

 String evalStr;
 String messageStr = "<html><p style=\"font-size:95%\">";

 evalStr = "(find-all-facts ((?f technique)) TRUE)";

 MultifieldValue mv = (MultifieldValue) clips.eval(evalStr);
 int tNum = mv.size();

 for (int i = 1; i <= tNum; i++)
   {
    evalStr = "(find-fact ((?f technique-employed)) " +
                   "(eq ?f:priority " + i + "))";

    mv = (MultifieldValue) clips.eval(evalStr);
    if (mv.size() == 0) continue;

    FactAddressValue fv = (FactAddressValue) mv.get(0);

    messageStr = messageStr + ((NumberValue) fv.getFactSlot("priority")).intValue() + ". " +
                              ((LexemeValue) fv.getFactSlot("reason")).lexemeValue() + "<br>";
   }
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(jfrm,messageStr,sudokuResources.getString("SolutionTechniques"),JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);

Basically you use the eval function to execute the query and return a list of facts in a CLIPS multifield value. You retrieve the facts from the multifield and then use the getFactSlot function to retrieve specific slot values.