Created this for tracking and additional discussion:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-2059
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 1:19 PM Daniel Kuppitz <m...@gremlin.guru> wrote:
> Yea, that's weird. My code was actually pseudo-code, I wasn't referring to
> T.id and T.label, we would have String some constants as we do for other
> with() modulations. Perhaps:
>
> valueMap().with(Tokens.all)
> valueMap().with(Tokens.label)
> valueMap().with(Tokens.id)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:14 AM Stephen Mallette <spmalle...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I thought about using with() for this in some way but figured by() was
> the
> > right direction. i like your idea, but with(String) won't take
> with(label)
> > or with(id) right? can we use by() again? We already have by(T) as a
> > modulator:
> >
> > g.V().
> > valueMap().
> > by(id).
> > by(label).
> > by(unfold())
> >
> > Looks a little weird though...maybe?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:19 AM Daniel Kuppitz <m...@gremlin.guru> wrote:
> >
> > > Good idea! Also, when I saw the subject of your email, I thought you
> were
> > > about to propose something like .with(label), .with(id) or
> .with(tokens)
> > -
> > > I would like that too as valueMap is the only step that takes a boolean
> > > parameter that changes its behavior.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Daniel
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 2:01 AM Stephen Mallette <spmalle...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > valueMap() is a really convenient step:
> > > >
> > > > gremlin> g.V().has('person','name','marko').valueMap()
> > > > ==>[name:[marko],age:[29]]
> > > >
> > > > or perhaps more preferably:
> > > >
> > > > gremlin> g.V().has('person','name','marko').valueMap('name','age')
> > > > ==>[name:[marko],age:[29]]
> > > >
> > > > but argh - multiproperties ruin everything. so then we're forced into
> > > > Gremlin acrobatics:
> > > >
> > > > gremlin> g.V().has('name','marko').
> > > > ......1> valueMap('name','age').
> > > > ......2> unfold().
> > > > ......3> group().
> > > > ......4> by(keys).
> > > > ......5> by(select(values).unfold())
> > > > ==>[name:marko,age:29]
> > > >
> > > > or as I usually recommend, use project():
> > > >
> > > > gremlin>
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> g.V().has('person','name','marko').project('name','age').by('name').by('age')
> > > > ==>[name:marko,age:29]
> > > >
> > > > which is fine, but you pretty much have to type a lot more especially
> > if
> > > > there are a lot of properties to contend with. What if we were to
> > > modulate
> > > > valueMap() with by(Traversal) so that:
> > > >
> > > > g.V().has('person','name','marko').
> > > > valueMap('name','age').
> > > > by(unfold())
> > > >
> > > > and the by() are just applied round-robin on the keys? Thoughts?
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
