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stephen mallette commented on TINKERPOP-1278:
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I think that sounds good. I was wondering if you were going to be able to
implement it the way you initially proposed. Maintaining one more set of tests
to cover many variants is an acceptable cost in my book.
> Support at least 3 Gremlin language variants.
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Key: TINKERPOP-1278
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-1278
> Project: TinkerPop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: language-variant
> Affects Versions: 3.2.0-incubating
> Reporter: Marko A. Rodriguez
>
> As discussed on dev@...
> Apache TinkerPop should provide, out-of-the-box, at least 3 Gremlin language
> variants. It would be cool if these were:
> * Python (Mark Henderson)
> * PHP ([~PommeVerte])
> * Ruby (?[~okram])
> I think each of these should be generated using the reflection-model
> presented in
> http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/3.2.1-SNAPSHOT/tutorials/gremlin-language-variants/.
> Moreover, on every {{mvn clean install}}, the code for these variants is
> generated.
> Given the desire to separate language variants from language drivers, I think
> that a language driver for each variant above should be "plugable." Moreover,
> we should provide one driver implementation for each -- simple GremlinServer
> REST.
> {code}
> gremlin-variants/
> gremlin-ruby/
> gremlin_ruby.rb
> gremlin_ruby_rest_driver.rb
> gremlin-php/
> Gremlin_PHP.php
> Gremlin_PHP_REST_Driver.php
> gremlin-python/
> gremlin-python.py
> gremlin-python-rest-driver.py
> {code}
> Next, each variant implementation should be testable. This is PAINFUL if we
> have to implement each {{g_V_out_repeatXasXaXX}} test case in
> {{ProcessXXXSuite}}. Perhaps some RegEx transducer magic could be used to
> convert all those tests from Gremlin-Java to the respective host language?
> However, even if we do that, we still have the problem of how to test the
> returned results.
> I think what we should test the returned results using the JVM. For instance,
> JRuby, Jython, JPHP (does it exist?). If we do this, we will save ourselves a
> massive headache. All we have to do is create a {{GraphProvider}} that uses
> {{TinkerGraph}} and whose {{TraversalSource}} is some sort of wrapper around
> reflection-generated Ruby (e.g.).
> {code}
> g.V.out_e("knows") // returns a Ruby iterator
> {code}
> That Ruby iterator should be converted to a Java iterator and then the
> {{ProcessXXXSuite}} can verify the results.
> With this, most everything is reflectively constructed.
> {code}
> gremlin_ruby.rb // generated via Java reflection
> gremlin_ruby_rest_driver.rb // manually coded
> match_test.rb // generated via RegEx transducer
> has_test.rb // generated via RegEx transducer
> ...
> RubyGraphProvider.java // manually coded
> RubyProcessStandardSuite.java // manually coded
> RubyProcessComputerSuite.java // manually coded
> {code}
> Thus, the testing data flow would be:
> {code}
> MatchTest.Traversals.java --transducer-> match_test.rb
> match-test.rb --REST--> GremlinServer
> GremlinServer --GraphSON-->match-test.rb
> GraphSON --JRuby/GraphSONReader-->Java objects
> Java objects --JRuby-->MatchTest.java
> {code}
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