[TINKERPOP-2654] Add a GremlinLangTranslator

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.5.1
• Component/s: translator
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stephen Mallette
• Created: 19/Nov/21 12:15
• Updated: 21/May/24 20:59

Description

To this point, the GroovyTranslator has been largely in line with gremlin-language in terms of the Gremlin it generates, but maybe it is worth breaking from that position. To have a succinct gremlin-language we might end up situations where we can't easily express what we want in Groovy without contorting Groovy severely with metaprogramming - we already do this to some degree with strategies. Perhaps it is best to let them each evolve separately by having a GremlinLangTranslator.

This change would open up the idea of having Traversal.toString() or the like to have a Gremlin translation rather than the blocky bytecode or step toString() which is harder to read.

Issue Links

• relates to: TINKERPOP-3028 Convert translators to make use of the grammar