[jira] [Commented] (TINKERPOP3-798) [Proposal] Rename mapKeys()/mapValues() to select(keys) and select(values).

["Marko A. Rodriguez (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Marko A. Rodriguez commented on TINKERPOP3-798:
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NOTE: I don't propose putting this functionality into {{SelectStep}} and {{SelectOneStep}}. It would be a new step called {{SelectColumnStep}}, would NOT be {{by()}}-modulatable (unless someone has a good idea for it?), and in {{GraphTraversal}}, it would be {{select(SelectEnum)}}. It would take {{Path}}, {{Map}}, and {{Map.Entry}} as input types and return {{Collection<E>}}.

> [Proposal] Rename mapKeys()/mapValues() to select(keys) and select(values).
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>
>                 Key: TINKERPOP3-798
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP3-798
>             Project: TinkerPop 3
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: process
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0-incubating
>            Reporter: Marko A. Rodriguez
>            Assignee: Marko A. Rodriguez
>
> I don't like the terms {{mapKeys()}} and {{mapValues()}}. I think we should use "select" as the term for all projections out of a tuple. For instance, we do:
> {code}
> select('a') // get the object referenced by 'a' out of the incoming map
> select('a','b') // get the objects referenced by 'a' and 'b' out of the incoming map
> {code}
> {{select()}} can even be used in situations that people don't typically think to use it.
> {code}
> gremlin> g.V().has('name','Die Hard').groupCount().by('name')
> ==>[Die Hard:1]
> gremlin> g.V().has('name','Die Hard').groupCount().by('name').select('Die Hard')
> ==>1
> gremlin> g.V().hasLabel('movie').groupCount().by('name').select('Die Hard','Toy Story','Jurassic Park')
> ==>[Die Hard:1, Toy Story:1, Jurassic Park:1]
> {code}
> However, this assumes the keys are strings as {{select()}} only takes string arguments.
> I think for all "project scenarios" the term should be "select." Thus, instead of {{mapKeys()}} and {{mapValues()}}, we have:
> {code}
> select(keys) : Map -> Set<String>
> select(values) : Map -> Collection<Object>
> {code}
> Moreover, I don't think these should be flatMap steps like {{mapXXX()}} as you are projecting for EACH map (similar to how {{select('a','b')}} is not a flat map of a/b entires but maps of a/b entries).
> This type of select is different than the others as you are not projecting out a value for an entry (row + key -> value), but a Collection value for column (map + key/value -> collection). Regardless, it is still a projection of the incoming map (or path!). 



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