Awesome feedback Marko. Daniel had brought some of these up as well : https://github.com/PommeVerte/gremlin-bin/issues/16
I was waiting to finalize the console JS part and open sourcing it as some of the stuff you asked aren't possible on the current system. I will be upgrading GremlinBin with it today. I really like the idea of being able to select your graph from a visual set. and I don't mind getting rid of the create your own section. Regarding your points: 1. This is now possible and easy to add. 2. I kept the line breaks to make the json readable but couldn't make separate behaviors for json vs text. Now with the update this should also be possible. 3. I would like to think about this a bit more. I'm not against the idea, I just had plans for the right section of the input bar so I'll need to see how I could adapt. 4. This can be done now as well. 5. I have some sandboxing issues/reservations here. Once I work through them I can do this. 6. That's a really good idea. One last note about the grateful-dead graph. The current visualization system chokes on the graph. So this is going to take a bit more work because it requires a viz update. I should be implementing some of these over the weekend. And I will announce the js console release at the beginning of next week. On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Marko Rodriguez <okramma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dylan, > > I've been seeing Gremlinbin in action a lot lately (mainly through > Daniel's answers to users on the mailing list). I like it, of course, but > there are a few things that still bug me about it that I think (if you also > think) would make it better. Here is the laundry list. > > -------------------- > > The + (New) page is really janky 1990's HTML form-cheesy looking. > > We have a graphic for each graph you display there. > > http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/3.1.1-incubating/images/tinkerpop-modern.png > > http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/3.1.1-incubating/images/the-crew-graph.png > ** I would not provide classic. Just modern. No reason to confuse > people. > ** You should also provide the GratefulDead graph with the > visualization being its schema: > > http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/3.1.1-incubating/images/grateful-dead-schema.png > > I don't know what good UI trick to use, but to have it where people can > look at the graphic when selecting which graph to use would be neat. This > pull down form menu is just really fuggly and what does "modern" mean? … > "crew" ? … Maybe even have a little blurb of text under each graphic saying > what the graph is about?…. > > Next, the "create your own" is sort weird. I don't think it should be > there. If people want to create their own, they would choose empty graph > and then in the console do their addV(), addE() mutations traversals to > create the graph (and see it visualized as they are creating it!). > > Finally, perhaps a little Gremlin character on this page to give it some > pizazz. > > -------------------- > > The console area should really really really (really) look identical to > the Gremlin Console. > > 1. Start off with the \___/ Gremlin ASCII character and all. > 2. There shouldn't be line breaks between the gremlin> lines. > 3. You should type your query at the bottom, not at the top. > 4. You should break up the graph loading into multiple steps: > gremlin> graph = TinkerGraph.open() > gremlin> graph = graph.traversal() > 5. You should not use TinkerFactory as newbies will go "uhhh?". Perhaps > load from GraphML or GraphSON. > gremlin> graph.io(graphml()).readGraph('data/the-crew.xml') > 6. The console area should have an option to export the graph as GraphML, > GraphSON, or Gryo. This way people can take their graph with them. > > -------------------- > > > Anywho, just some thoughts. If any of them resonate with you, I can add > them to your issue tracker. Just tell me which, if any. > > Thanks, > Marko. > > http://markorodriguez.com > >
