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Return a const reference to the maintained rule set&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;ball&lowbar;categorymanager&period;h&gt;`

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xref:BloombergLP/ball/RuleSet.adoc[RuleSet] const&
ruleSet() const;
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== Description

Return a `const` reference to the rule set maintained by this category manager&period; The mutex returned by `rulesetMutex` should be locked prior to accessing the rule set&period;

== Return Value

`const` reference to the maintained rule set


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