Yea, that's weird. My code was actually pseudo-code, I wasn't referring to
T.id and T.label, we would have String some constants as we do for other
with() modulations. Perhaps:
valueMap().with(Tokens.all)
valueMap().with(Tokens.label)
valueMap().with(Tokens.id)
Cheers,
Daniel
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:14 AM Stephen Mallette <spmalle...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I thought about using with() for this in some way but figured by() was the
> right direction. i like your idea, but with(String) won't take with(label)
> or with(id) right? can we use by() again? We already have by(T) as a
> modulator:
>
> g.V().
> valueMap().
> by(id).
> by(label).
> by(unfold())
>
> Looks a little weird though...maybe?
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:19 AM Daniel Kuppitz <m...@gremlin.guru> wrote:
>
> > Good idea! Also, when I saw the subject of your email, I thought you were
> > about to propose something like .with(label), .with(id) or .with(tokens)
> -
> > I would like that too as valueMap is the only step that takes a boolean
> > parameter that changes its behavior.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 2:01 AM Stephen Mallette <spmalle...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > valueMap() is a really convenient step:
> > >
> > > gremlin> g.V().has('person','name','marko').valueMap()
> > > ==>[name:[marko],age:[29]]
> > >
> > > or perhaps more preferably:
> > >
> > > gremlin> g.V().has('person','name','marko').valueMap('name','age')
> > > ==>[name:[marko],age:[29]]
> > >
> > > but argh - multiproperties ruin everything. so then we're forced into
> > > Gremlin acrobatics:
> > >
> > > gremlin> g.V().has('name','marko').
> > > ......1> valueMap('name','age').
> > > ......2> unfold().
> > > ......3> group().
> > > ......4> by(keys).
> > > ......5> by(select(values).unfold())
> > > ==>[name:marko,age:29]
> > >
> > > or as I usually recommend, use project():
> > >
> > > gremlin>
> > >
> > >
> >
> g.V().has('person','name','marko').project('name','age').by('name').by('age')
> > > ==>[name:marko,age:29]
> > >
> > > which is fine, but you pretty much have to type a lot more especially
> if
> > > there are a lot of properties to contend with. What if we were to
> > modulate
> > > valueMap() with by(Traversal) so that:
> > >
> > > g.V().has('person','name','marko').
> > > valueMap('name','age').
> > > by(unfold())
> > >
> > > and the by() are just applied round-robin on the keys? Thoughts?
> > >
> >
>
