My point is that group().by('key').by('value/reduce') seems kind of weird
anyway. The equivalent sql would be "select 'value/reduce' ... group by
'key' ".

A few alternative options:
g.V().group().by(keyTraversal).mapValues(valueTraversal) //As Marko pointed
out this doesn't address the old GroupStep deprecation

g.V().group(keyTraversal).mapValues(valueTraversal) // group() is
@Deprecated

g.V().group(valueTraversal).by(keyTraversal) // group() is @Deprecated

g.V().group(keyTraversal, valueTraversal) // group() is @Deprecated

On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 at 01:42 Marko Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote:

> Uh…. First select() is already taken and by() is always a by()-modulator……
> :/ Even with that, we still can't fix the backwards compatibility issue as
> we can't deprecate out the second by(). How do you say "if the second by()
> is applied, its Deprecated?" Perhaps Logger.WARN or something.. Dunno,
> sorta odd.
>
> Marko.
>
> http://markorodriguez.com
>
> On Oct 6, 2015, at 3:26 PM, Ran Magen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > How about changing the second 'by' to a more indicative name (could
> > 'select' work?)?
> >
> > That way we could improve on the name (which always had me confused), and
> > leave the second+third 'by's as an indication to use the old
> > implementation...
> >
> > On יום ד׳, 7 באוק׳ 2015 at 0:18 Marko Rodriguez <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everyone (and the NSA -- Kuppitz did it),
> >>
> >> This is regarding this ticket:
> >>        https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP3-866
> >>
> >> In group_step_2/ branch we have a new implementation of GroupStep. Here
> is
> >> an example:
> >>
> >> g.V.group.by('name').by(outE.weight).by(max()) // old way
> >> g.V.group.by('name').by(outE.weight.max()) // new way
> >>
> >> What is the difference, there is only two by()-modulators that can be
> >> passed to group(): keyTraversal and valueTraversal. What happened to
> >> reduceTraversal? Well, valueTraversal is that. If you want to reduce on
> >> your values, well, add a reducing barrier step -- e.g. max, min, sum,
> >> count, fold, mean, etc. In the old way, we would put all your values
> into a
> >> Collection<V> and then when the step was complete, we would feed those
> into
> >> the reduceTraversal. Now -- we can dynamically reduce on the fly. This
> will
> >> greatly improve speed and memory usage as we don't have to create a big
> old
> >> Collection<V> and instead, can reduce as new traversers are fed into
> >> valueTraversal.
> >>
> >> So this is great and no would object. What sucks is that this is NOT
> >> backwards compatible. What Stephen and I came up with (in the ticket)
> is to
> >> make:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-tinkerpop/blob/group_step_2/gremlin-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tinkerpop/gremlin/process/traversal/dsl/graph/GraphTraversal.java#L637-L639
> >>
> >> This new step groupV3d0() is a deprecated step that is what the "old
> way"
> >> was. Note the naming convention that Stephen used for Kryo is now used
> here
> >> -- V3d0 (version 3<dot>0). Thus, for users moving forward, they will
> have
> >> to do a "replace all" on their queries and rename "group()" to
> >> "groupV3d0()". Then slowly, over time, convert their traversal to use
> the
> >> new group() step and its respective semantics.
> >>
> >> Note that in the past we have been able to do backwards compatibility
> via
> >> having the new step (e.g. AddVertexStep) simulate the behavior of the
> old
> >> step and have respective @Deprecates in there to say that particular
> >> GraphTraversal methods will go away. However, in this situation, the
> best
> >> we can do is groupV3d0().
> >>
> >> Anywho. That is that. If people have any better ideas on how to solve
> this
> >> backwards compatibility issue, I'm all (deaf) ears.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Marko.
> >>
> >> http://markorodriguez.com
> >>
> >>
>
>

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