How to access the vertices of a path in Gremlin through Java? - gremlin

Question

I'm using Java to access Gremlin. I have the following lines of code for creating a path between two vertices in an already created graph:
//begin simple path finding
Vertex fromNode = g.V().has("name", "i2").next();
Vertex toNode = g.V().has("name", "state1").next();
ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
g.V(fromNode).repeat(both().simplePath()).until(is(toNode)).limit(1).path().fill(list);
However, at this point I"m stuck. I can print out the list using list.toString() and I get the vertices that (I believe) are on the path. However, I now want to get those vertices themselves, access and potentially mutate their data. For instance, it isn't enough to know that v[32] is on the path if I can't access the ID 32 itself.
I should mention that I'm a bit new to this so please let me know if I'm using outdated/incorrect practices.

Answer 1

You ended up with a list filled with Path objects. I think what you're looking for is the unfold() step (see the docs) so you can unroll/flatten out the elements in path to put into the list. Here's a Gremlin Console session showing it:
gremlin> graph = TinkerGraph.open()
==>tinkergraph[vertices:0 edges:0]
gremlin> g = graph.traversal()
==>graphtraversalsource[tinkergraph[vertices:0 edges:0], standard]
gremlin> g.addV("name", "i2").as("a").addV("name", "state1").addE("to").from("a").toList()
==>e[4][0-to->2]
gremlin> fromNode = g.V().has("name", "i2").next()
==>v[0]
gremlin> toNode = g.V().has("name", "state1").next()
==>v[2]
gremlin> l = new ArrayList()
gremlin> g.V(fromNode).repeat(both().simplePath()).until(is(toNode)).limit(1).path().fill(l)
==>[v[0],v[2]]
gremlin> l = []; g.V(fromNode).repeat(both().simplePath()).until(is(toNode)).limit(1).path().fill(l)
==>[v[0],v[2]]
gremlin> l = []; g.V(fromNode).repeat(both().simplePath()).until(is(toNode)).limit(1).path().unfold().fill(l)
==>v[0]
==>v[2]
gremlin> l[0].getClass()
==>class org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.tinkergraph.structure.TinkerVertex
gremlin> l[0].property("name", "j3") // mutate the vertex's name
==>vp[name->i3]
gremlin> g.V(fromNode).valueMap(true).toList()
==>[id:0,name:[j3],label:vertex]

Answer 2

You should have access to these through list you're using on the fill step. The toString method won't print out the properties. If you just want to see those, you can call valueMap() instead of fill at the end of your traversal. If you'd like to iterate over all of the vertices and get the properties, you can use the properties method. If you want to get a specific property, you can use the property(key) method. The rest of what you'd need is in the API docs