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Daniel Weber commented on TINKERPOP-1924:
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Also, project(...) would not take values of type T (as T.id) as well. That
could be another case where to possibly relax the signature.
> Make meta-properties accessible via values(...)-step
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: TINKERPOP-1924
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-1924
> Project: TinkerPop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: structure
> Affects Versions: 3.3.1
> Reporter: Daniel Weber
> Priority: Minor
>
> I'm currently running into a situation where I'd like to access
> meta-properties through the values(...)-method. Unfortunately, the signature
> of values() only takes strings, so this is not possible:
> {code:java}
> g.V().values(T.id)
> {code}
> Of course, there's the trivial workaround:
> {code:java}
> g.V().id()
> {code}
> However, I'd like to get values for multiple properties, so the workaround
> becomes ugly:
> {code:java}
> g.V().union(__.id(), __.values('key'))
> {code}
> That there would be no overload of values(...) supporting T-accessors is a
> bit odd. has(...) has an extra overload for T-accessors, property(...) allows
> arbitrary objects to be passed in as key. The valueMap-method allows
> including T-accessors in the returned map.
> Would it be possible to relax the signature of values(...) to take an
> arbitrary list of objects instead of property keys of type string? If the
> discussion here turns out in favor of such a relaxation, I could try to
> implement the change.
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