Support for Hugegraph on gdotv - graph database IDE

[arthur-bigeard-gdotv]

Hi folks,

My name's Arthur, I'm the creator of gdotv, a graph database IDE compatible with a large number of graph databases. We got our start in the Apache TinkerPop ecosystem and provide (arguably) the best Gremlin language support out there.
I've been aware of Hugegraph for a few years but I've never taken the time to add support for it on gdotv.
It looks like it would be fairly straightforward to do (thanks to the Hugegraph Java client) and I'm curious to hear if the community would find this a useful tool.
I had a brief conversation with @imbajin on the Apache TinkerPop Discord back in 2023 and it seemed like there was mutual interest, however at the time I was working on the project alone and part-time, and frankly didn't manage to find time to make it happen. I'm now full-time with a development team so it seems like a good time to pick this back up!

As a quick aside, congratulations on becoming a top-level Apache project, this is great! And a little screenshot of gdotv to give you an idea of what it looks like today:

[imbajin]

Hi Arthur,

Thanks for reaching out! Apologies for the delayed response—most of our community developers were away for the Spring Festival holiday recently.

It’s truly exciting to see you back, and even better, with the opportunity to work on this full-time! That is indeed one of the ultimate dreams for every open-source devs, so huge congratulations on that.

The HugeGraph community is very much looking forward to seeing gdotv support. If you encounter any issues or have questions while using the hugegraph-client, please don't hesitate to let us know. We are happy to provide any support needed.

[arthur-bigeard-gdotv]

Hi @imbajin,

I decided to give the integration a try, it went very well. It's not gonna make the cut off for our upcoming release but it will be there for the next one, hopefully before end of March. The only issues I've experienced with the hugegraph-client are:

• the Response object is not exposed in the CypherManager and GremlinManager, which made it hard to extract error messages and other metadata. I've resorted to created extended versions of both to resolve this and it worked a treat
• The cypher API doesn't support parameters (e.g. MATCH (s) RETURN $limit) and I wasn't clear from the documentation which procedures, if any, are supported.

Otherwise all good! Still doing a bit of testing but it looks good to me. I'd be quite happy to provide you and anyone else a dev build to try out if you'd like? Would love to hear feedback from Hugegraph users and contributors.