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Paul updated TINKERPOP-3304:
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    Affects Version/s: 3.7.7
                           (was: 3.7.3)

> mergeV() and mergeE() pass a null old value to MutationListener when the 
> property did not exist yet
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>
>                 Key: TINKERPOP-3304
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-3304
>             Project: TinkerPop
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: process
>    Affects Versions: 3.7.7, 3.8.2
>            Reporter: Paul
>            Priority: Minor
>
> When EventStrategy is configured, {{MergeVertexStep}} and {{MergeEdgeStep}} 
> (onMatch) report the properties they set through 
> {{EventUtil.registerVertexPropertyChange()}} and 
> {{EventUtil.registerEdgePropertyChange()}}. When the property does not exist 
> yet, both pass {{null}} as the old value:
> {code:java}
> final Property<Object> oldValue = p.isPresent() ? 
> eventStrategy.detach(edge.property(key)) : null;
> {code}
> {{AddPropertyStep}} does not. Since 3.4.0 (TINKERPOP-1831, see the 3.4.x 
> upgrade documentation: "the event now raises with a {{KeyedVertexProperty}} 
> or {{KeyedProperty}} instance, which only contains a property key and no 
> value in them"), events raised from new mutations carry a keyed property 
> instead of {{null}}, so a listener can tell which property was added. This is 
> asserted by {{EventStrategyProcessTest}} 
> ({{shouldDetachPropertyOfEdgeWhenNew}}, 
> {{shouldDetachVertexPropertyWhenNew}}). {{mergeV()}}/{{mergeE()}}, added in 
> 3.6.0, still raise {{null}}: the key is lost, and a listener written for the 
> documented contract fails with a {{NullPointerException}} on 
> {{oldValue.key()}} or {{oldValue.isPresent()}}.
> To reproduce, with TinkerGraph:
> {code:java}
> MutationListener listener = ...; // records the oldValue received by 
> edgePropertyChanged()
> GraphTraversalSource g = traversal().withEmbedded(graph)
>         .withStrategies(EventStrategy.build().addListener(listener).create());
> Vertex v = graph.addVertex();
> v.addEdge("self", v);
> g.E().property("a", 1).iterate();
> // oldValue is a KeyedProperty, key() == "a"
> g.V(v).mergeE(Map.of(T.label, "self")).option(Merge.onMatch, Map.of("b", 
> 2)).iterate();
> // oldValue is null: nothing tells the listener that "b" is the property that 
> was set
> {code}
> The same happens with {{mergeV(...).option(Merge.onMatch, ...)}} and 
> {{vertexPropertyChanged()}}. The repro above gives the same result on the 
> current 3.7-dev and 3.8-dev branches; the code is identical in 3.7.3, 3.8.2 
> and master.
> We hit this with a listener that records the history of property changes: the 
> first modification of an edge made through {{mergeE()}} is never recorded.
> Expected: the same as {{property()}}, a {{KeyedProperty}} / 
> {{KeyedVertexProperty}} when the property is new.
> A patch with tests against 3.7-dev is ready; a pull request will follow.
> Notes: the Javadoc of {{Event.EdgePropertyChangedEvent}} and 
> {{Event.VertexPropertyChangedEvent}} still says that {{oldValue}} is {{null}} 
> for a new property; it predates the 3.4.0 change and is updated in the fix. A 
> listener that tests {{oldValue == null}} on merge events would receive a 
> non-null, non-present property aft



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