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How to combine nodes on select in TinkerPop3?


im working with the Apache gremlin graph and TinkerPop3. There are two nodes

<!-- # parentNode with properties # -->
g.addV('Location')
.property('id', 'fb864e1f-a2e0-4c02-b891-2c0713b29751')
.property('name', 'BananaShop')
.property('description', 'Ipsum dolor sit ...')
.property('fuu', 'abc')
.property('bar', 'xyz')
.addE('FR-FR').to(g.V('b3bd8a03-531f-4f7f-b355-32954b03fd21')) 

and also

<!-- # childNode with translations only # -->
g.addV('Localized')
.property('id', 'b3bd8a03-531f-4f7f-b355-32954b03fd21')
.property('name', 'FR.BananaShop')
.property('description', 'Et ea rebum ...')

my query is:

g.V().has("Name","BananaShop").as("a").out("FR-FR").as("b").select("a","b")   

The result is fine. I got both nodes, with all properties! But i´m only interested in a singel result with the properties of the parent node and the translations of the child node. if i have no matching child with translations, that select the "name" and "description" of the parent.

{
 id : ...,
 name : "FR-FR",         // childnode data
 description : "FR-FR",  // childnode data
 fuu : "...",
 bar : "..."
}

How do i need to change my query for this?


Solution

  • I would use project() in this case:

    gremlin> g.V().has('name','BananaShop').
    ......1>   project('id','name','description','fuu','bar').
    ......2>     by('id').
    ......3>     by(out('FR-FR').values('name')).
    ......4>     by(out('FR-FR').values('description')).
    ......5>     by('fuu').
    ......6>     by('bar')
    ==>[id:fb864e1f-a2e0-4c02-b891-2c0713b29751,name:FR.BananaShop,description:Et ea rebum ...,fuu:abc,bar:xyz]
    

    You are traversing out() twice though by doing this. If that is expensive in CosmosDB, you could consider changing your format to something more like:

    gremlin> g.V().has('name','BananaShop').
    ......1>   project('id','child','fuu','bar').
    ......2>     by('id').
    ......3>     by(out('FR-FR').project('name','description').by('name').by('description')).
    ......4>     by('fuu').
    ......5>     by('bar')
    ==>[id:fb864e1f-a2e0-4c02-b891-2c0713b29751,child:[name:FR.BananaShop,description:Et ea rebum ...],fuu:abc,bar:xyz]