[TINKERPOP-1854] Support lambdas in Gremlin.Net

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.3.0, 3.2.6
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.8, 3.3.2
• Component/s: dotnet
• Assignee: Florian Hockmann
• Reporter: Florian Hockmann
• Created: 13/Dec/17 13:14
• Updated: 18/Mar/18 12:04
• Resolved: 18/Mar/18 12:04

Description

Gremlin.Net should support lambdas. We already discussed this in the pull request for TINKERPOP-1752. Here is what Stephen Mallette said over there:

Any reason we don't support lambdas? Even if .NET can't support them natively for some reason wouldn't we minimally support the ability to pass a python/groovy/etc lambda? it's kinda weird that way, but i think back to the point that kuppitz made on the dev list the other day where he stated that he doesn't always find a way out of using lambdas in production systems he works on - so ultimately users will need that kind of capability i think.

C# lambdas would require some kind of C# parser on the server side, so at least in the beginning a way to send lambdas from already supported languages in Gremlin.Net should be enough.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: TINKERPOP-1901 Enable usage of enums in more steps in Gremlin.Net
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #792