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ASF GitHub Bot commented on TINKERPOP-1589:
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Github user spmallette commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/pull/548
tests all pass with docker so that's good.
@okram would you prefer to not see this change made to `FlatMapStep` and
instead see it implemented specifically in steps that interact with the
Structure API, like: `VertexStep`? or is this ok from your perspective?
> Re-Introduce CloseableIterator
> ------------------------------
>
> Key: TINKERPOP-1589
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-1589
> Project: TinkerPop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: structure
> Affects Versions: 3.2.3
> Reporter: stephen mallette
> Assignee: stephen mallette
> Fix For: 3.2.4
>
>
> In Blueprints, we used to have {{CloseableIterable}}, which allowed users to
> release resources that might have been held by the underlying graph database.
> We didn't port that interface to TinkerPop 3.x for some reason. Graphs like
> OrientDB require a {{close()}} method for iterators returned from methods
> like {{Graph.vertices()}} and {{Graph.edges()}}. In addition, allowing
> {{close()}} from those iterators would make the {{close()}} on {{Traversal}}
> (non-remote) more useful and meaningful (right now it is an empty method by
> default).
> In Blueprints, {{Graph.getVertices()}} and {{Graph.getEdges()}} returned a
> {{Iterable}} and the Graph could choose to return {{CloseableIterator}}.
> Users who wanted to write provider agnostic code would then have to do:
> {code}
> if (iterable instanceof CloseableIterable))
> ((CloseableIterable) iterable).close();
> {code}
> I'm not sure why we didn't simply return {{CloseableIterable}} from those
> methods. Any reason we shouldn't do that now? Perhaps the approach is to
> introduce {{CloseableIterator}} to 3.2.4, but keep the return type of
> {{edges/vertices()}} as {{Iterator}} and then for 3.3.0 change the return
> type to {{CloseableIterator}}. In this way, the feature can be available in
> next release of 3.2.4 without any API changes and users can do the
> {{instanceof}} check above if they need to. Then for 3.3.0 when we allow API
> changes we can just make it more convenient with a {{CloseableIterator}}
> return type.
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