[jira] [Updated] (TINKERPOP3-715) [Proposal] Do we need a optional(traversal) like in TinkerPop2?

["stephen mallette (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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stephen mallette updated TINKERPOP3-715:
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    Component/s: process

> [Proposal] Do we need a optional(traversal) like in TinkerPop2?
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>
>                 Key: TINKERPOP3-715
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP3-715
>             Project: TinkerPop 3
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: process
>            Reporter: Marko A. Rodriguez
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> In TinkerPop2 we had {{optional()}}. It allowed the traverser to go down the {{optional}}-branch and its results were only used for their sideEffects. For instance:
> {code}
> g.V(x).optional(out('rated').aggregate('userLibrary'))
>   .outE('rated').has('stars',gte(4)).inV()
>   .inE('rated').has('stars',gte(4)).inV()
>   .outE('rated').has('stars',gte(4)).inV().where(not(within('userLibrary')))
>     .groupCount()
> {code}
> To do this in TinkerPop3, we would do:
> {code}
> g.V(x).sideEffect(v -> g.V(v.get()).out('rated').aggregate('userLibrary').iterate())
>   .outE('rated').has('stars',gte(4)).inV()
>   .inE('rated').has('stars',gte(4)).inV()
>   .outE('rated').has('stars',gte(4)).inV().where(not(within('userLibrary')))
>     .groupCount()
> {code}
> ... :/ ... should we add {{optional}} back in the mix? It would be like {{.as('a').local(...).select('a')}} but it would not care if the nested traversal returned a result or not.



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