Github user spmallette commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/pull/882#discussion_r207509387 --- Diff: gremlin-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tinkerpop/gremlin/process/traversal/dsl/graph/GraphTraversal.java --- @@ -2451,6 +2452,24 @@ else if (value instanceof Traversal) return this.asAdmin().addStep((Step<E, E>) new PeerPressureVertexProgramStep(this.asAdmin())); } + /** + * Executes a Shortest Path algorithm over the graph. + * + * @return the traversal with the appended {@link ShortestPathVertexProgramStep} + * @see <a href="http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/${project.version}/reference/#shortestpath-step" target="_blank">Reference Documentation - ShortestPath Step</a> + */ + public default GraphTraversal<S, Path> shortestPath() { + if (this.asAdmin().getEndStep() instanceof GraphStep) { --- End diff -- `connectedComponent()` seems to work without adding that `identity()` step: ```text gremlin> graph = TinkerFactory.createModern() ==>tinkergraph[vertices:6 edges:6] gremlin> g = graph.traversal().withComputer() ==>graphtraversalsource[tinkergraph[vertices:6 edges:6], graphcomputer] gremlin> g.V().has('name',within('marko','vadas','lop','josh')).connectedComponent() ==>v[1] ==>v[3] ==>v[2] ==>v[4] ``` Not sure what's different....but now i'm questioning what i have in `connectedComponent()` again on something related.
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