[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-2927?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel
]
Yang Xia updated TINKERPOP-2927:
--------------------------------
Priority: Critical (was: Minor)
> Make all Steps extensible and overridable
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Key: TINKERPOP-2927
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-2927
> Project: TinkerPop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: driver
> Affects Versions: 3.6.2
> Reporter: Oleksandr Porunov
> Priority: Critical
>
> Related issue (fixed): https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-2924
>
> Working on optimization strategies sometimes require replacing steps with
> extended version of those steps. At this moment not all steps can be extended
> due to being `final` (like `ProjectStep`, `PropertyKeyStep`,
> `PropertyValueStep`, `RangeLocalStep`, `SumLocalStep`, and many more). Thus,
> it requires creating a similar step and duplicate some logic there instead of
> simply extending a specific step.
>
> For those steps which are non-final there are sometimes private fields
> without any getter methods (for example `private CallbackRegistry<Event>
> callbackRegistry` in `DropStep` is `private`. Thus, the caller needs to use
> Reflaction API to retrieve it's value).
>
> In JanusGraph we replace some steps with the extended version of those steps.
> For example, we completely overwrite `flatMap` step of `PropertiesStep` which
> is an anti-pattern, but in the case when it's hard to extend specific logic
> parts such anti-pattern might be a a good solution I guess.
>
> I think it would make sense to let Graph developers to extend any step and
> has access to it's fields / utility methods.
> In such case we could do similar with `ProjectStep` and make it query data in
> parallel (see issue: [https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/issues/3559] ).
>
> I'm also good not doing it in case anyone can suggest other patterns to
> follow for those optimizations instead of overwriting logic.
--
This message was sent by Atlassian Jira
(v8.20.10#820010)
