Great,

I'll probably have more feedback once I get a proper go at the TP3 stack.
I'm mostly waiting for Titan to build against M9 because of the ID
lossiness.

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Stephen Mallette <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks for the fast feedback - I've merged this change back to master - it
> will be available for 3.0.0.M9
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Dylan Millikin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Same, This is an easy change on the driver end and makes more sense as
> > well.
> >
> > On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Stephen Mallette <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > It occurred to me that the Gremlin Server protocol hasn't changed in
> any
> > > way in months.  A good thing, perhaps, but it also worried me a little,
> > in
> > > that on the other hand the reason it may not have changed is because it
> > > hasn't been paid enough attention.  In giving it another review, I
> found
> > > that I was quickly reminded of an annoying element of it - the "message
> > > terminator".
> > >
> > > Since Gremlin Server streams results back, the protocol need a way to
> > > express that the stream was "done".  I'd implemented this as a
> > terminating
> > > message with a status code 299.  This approach had the effect of
> marking
> > > the stream as "done" but came with the expense of an extra message for
> > > every request.  If I had n requests which generated a stream of s
> > response
> > > messages, i'd construct (n * 2) + s response messages to get all n
> > requests
> > > met.  I must have grown smarter in the last few months because it only
> > took
> > > a few keystrokes to alter the code to get rid of the terminator leaving
> > us
> > > with n + s response messages which is an obvious improvement.
> > >
> > > To accomplish this, I introduced these changes:
> > >
> > > 1. Dropped status code 299
> > > 2. Added status codes 204 (NO_CONTENT) and 206 (PARTIAL_CONTENT)
> > > 3. On a successful request with streaming results, the server will
> return
> > > 206 to represent that there are more results to be returned in the
> > stream.
> > > Those results will continue until 200 (SUCCESS) is returned. A
> successful
> > > result with no streaming (e.g. 1 result in an iterator) will just
> return
> > a
> > > 200.
> > > 4. All other status codes outside of 206, including the new 204 (which
> is
> > > returned for things like an empty iterator) represent terminating
> > > conditions for the stream.
> > >
> > > I have this work in a branch at the moment, but would like to move it
> to
> > > master in time for M9.  As this was a breaking change for the various
> > > clients out there (gremlin-js, aiogremlin, etc), I thought I'd post
> here
> > > first for comments before introducing it.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Stephen
> > >
> >
>

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