thanks for offering to work on this. the only parts auto-generated now are tests which produce this file:
https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/blob/master/gremlin-javascript/src/main/javascript/gremlin-javascript/test/cucumber/gremlin.js the script that does that is: https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/blob/master/gremlin-javascript/build/generate.groovy I have a few questions as I'm not familiar with typescript that much: 1. would existing javascript users of the library experience any sort of break in their code as a result of this change? 2. our entire project,even non-JVM based ones build by way of Maven. You can see where we do that here[1]. The commands embedded in that XML file I assume look familiar to you. can you say what would change in our build as a result of going to typescript? 3. on multiple occasions there have been people who have tried to make gremlin-javascript work in the browser - they never fully followed through but i imagine someone will wish to see that through. would a move to typescript preclude that from happening in any way? [1] https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/blob/master/gremlin-javascript/pom.xml#L139-L188 On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 6:34 PM Simon Gaufreteau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've been using gremlin for a few months in Typescript and I would like to > start contributing to the project. > From a user perspective, getting started with gremlin in Ts isn't the best, > there were multiple times when I had to look up the javadoc to understand > what was going on. > From a developer perspective, I feel like javascript is prone to type > errors and the devs could save a lot of time in the future if the project > keeps growing. > There are of course a few downsides like compilation time or additional > complexity in some cases, but since the initial codebase is in Java I don't > think these are very important. > > Based on this, I suggest a translation of gremlin-javascript to Typescript, > which was suggested in the past in this ticket : > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-2027. Since I've used > gremlin with Typescript and I have overall Typescript experience, I would > like to work on this if you think it's feasible. > > From what I understood, some parts of the library are auto-generated by > groovy scripts and some are manually written but it looks like this changed > quite a bit from version 3.4 (version at the time of the initial ticket). > I could use a little guidance on what is and what is not generated from the > Java code, could someone give a bit of details / link to the scripts that > handle this ? I will deep dive on this later but help is always > appreciated. > > Any thoughts on this task ? / Anything I should know or consider before I > get started ? > > Regards, > Simon >
