Hi Andrii, I like your idea as it would improve readability of traversals to be able to reference the service directly in the grammar instead of via the call step. Looking forward to the contribution!
Andrea From: Andrii Lomakin <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Proposal: Intorduction of equalence between call(serviceName, args:List) and method call in scripts Good day, colleagues. I would like to propose an approach to enhancing the extensibility of the Gremlin script, which, although it does not solve all problems, will make many Gremlin extensions feel native. The Idea, as you may have already guessed from the title, is simple: if a service is registered in TinkerPop to treat it as a method call with parameters, such as args: List<Object> as an argument. So call like: g.schemClass("User") will be translated to g.call("schemaClass", "args" : ["User]) In such a case, providers will extend Gremlin twofold: 1. Providing DSL that does the same call. 2. Registering related service. If you agree with this proposal, I would be glad to contribute it, as I mentioned, it does not solve all issues, such as the usage of custom predicates, but I am under the impression that it can be extended to that case too in the future.
