Goblin OGM for TinkerPop3 Gremlin Server

This project began as the ZEROFAIL fork of mogwai, a TinkerPop3 Gremlin Server compatible port of Cody Lee's original Python object graph mapper for Titan 0.5.x.

As Gremlin approached The TinkerPop, mogwai felt left behind and the closer he got, the more his world dissolved. He realized that all that he realized was just a realization and that all realized realizations are just as real as the need to evolve into something else - goblin was born...

Goblin uses @davebshow gremlinclient for asynchronous websocket based communication with the Gremlin Server, and is therefore designed to be multi-platform, allowing the user to choose between Tornado, Trollius, or Asyncio. It aims to provide full support for all TinkerPop3 enabled graph databases; however, it is currently only tested against Titan:db 1.x. This project is under active development.

Basic Example

from tornado import gen
from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop
from goblin import properties
from goblin import connection
from goblin.models import Vertex, Edge, V


class User(Vertex):
    name = properties.String()


class Follows(Edge):
    pass


@gen.coroutine
def go():
    goblin = yield User.create(name="Goblin")
    gremlin = yield User.create(name="Gremlin")
    gob_follows_grem = yield Follows.create(goblin, gremlin)
    # Find gremlin's followers
    stream = yield V(gremlin).in_step().get()
    followers = yield stream.read()
    return followers


connection.setup("ws://localhost:8182")
loop = IOLoop.current()
try:
    followers = loop.run_sync(go)
finally:
    connection.tear_down()
    loop.close()

Example Usage:

Download Titan, unzip, and fire it up:

$ wget http://s3.thinkaurelius.com/downloads/titan/titan-1.0.0-hadoop1.zip
$ unzip titan-1.0.0-hadoop1.zip
$ cd titan-1.0.0-hadoop1/
$ ./bin/titan.sh start

The following example uses Python 3.5. On Ubuntu, you can install Python 3.5 using deadsnakes:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python3.5

Then, if you have virtualenvwrapper, you can do something like this:

$ mkvirtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.5 goblin
$ pip install git+https://github.com/ZEROFAIL/goblin.git@dev#egg=goblin

Then you are ready to go. Goblin is easy to use, and while it's not yet feature complete, it's already working pretty well:

import asyncio
import datetime

from pytz import utc

from tornado.platform.asyncio import AsyncIOMainLoop

from goblin import properties
from goblin.connection import setup, tear_down
from goblin.models import Vertex, Edge, V
from goblin.relationships import Relationship


# Define edge models
class WorksFor(Edge):
    start_date = properties.DateTime()


class MemberOf(Edge):
    since = properties.DateTime()


class BelongsTo(Edge):
    pass


# Define vertex models
class Organization(Vertex):
    name = properties.String()
    email = properties.Email()
    url = properties.URL()


class Department(Vertex):
    name = properties.String()
    email = properties.Email()
    url = properties.URL()
    belongs_to = Relationship(BelongsTo, Organization)


class Person(Vertex):
    name = properties.String()
    email = properties.Email()
    url = properties.URL()
    works_for = Relationship(WorksFor, Organization)
    member_of = Relationship(MemberOf, Department)


async def main():
    # Start by creating a graph.

    # First create some nodes
    zfail = await Organization.create(
        name="zfail", email="[email protected]", url="https://zfail.com")
    west = await Organization.create(
        name="west", email="[email protected]", url="https://west.com")

    r_and_d = await Department.create(
        name="r_and_d", email="[email protected]", url="https://randd.com")
    c_and_p = await Department.create(
        name="c_and_p", email="[email protected]", url="https://candp.com")

    jon = await Person.create(
        name="jon", email="[email protected]", url="https://jon.com/")
    dave = await Person.create(
        name="dave", email="[email protected]", url="https://dave.com/")
    leif = await Person.create(
        name="leif", email="[email protected]", url="https://leif.com/")

    # Create some edges
    r_and_d_belongs_to = await BelongsTo.create(r_and_d, zfail)
    c_and_p_belongs_to = await BelongsTo.create(c_and_p, west)

    jon_works_for = await WorksFor.create(
        jon, zfail, start_date=datetime.datetime(2014, 1, 1, tzinfo=utc))
    jon_member_of = await MemberOf.create(
        jon, r_and_d, since=datetime.datetime(2014, 1, 1, tzinfo=utc))

    leif_works_for = await WorksFor.create(
        leif, zfail, start_date=datetime.datetime(2014, 1, 1, tzinfo=utc))
    leif_member_of = await MemberOf.create(
        leif, r_and_d, since=datetime.datetime(2014, 1, 1, tzinfo=utc))

    dave_works_for = await WorksFor.create(
        dave, west, start_date=datetime.datetime(2014, 1, 1, tzinfo=utc))
    dave_member_of = await MemberOf.create(
        dave, c_and_p, since=datetime.datetime(2014, 1, 1, tzinfo=utc))

    # You can also create nodes and edges at the same time
    # using the relationship properties
    dave_member_of_dep, a_and_h = await dave.member_of.create(
        edge_params={"since": datetime.datetime(2014, 1, 1, tzinfo=utc)},
        vertex_params={"name": "a_and_h", "email": "[email protected]",
                       "url": "https://aandh.com"})

    try:
        # Ok, now lets try out some of the Vertex methods these methods,
        # like all query methods return a gremlinclient.Stream object
        stream = await jon.outV()
        jons_out_v = await stream.read()
        print("These are Jon's neighbours:\n\n{}\n\n{}\n".format(
            jons_out_v[0], jons_out_v[1]))

        stream = await dave.outE()
        daves_out_e = await stream.read()
        print("These are Daves's rels:\n\n{}\n\n{}\n".format(
            daves_out_e[0], daves_out_e[1]))

        # Ok, how about some more complex queries?
        stream = await V(jon).out_step().in_step().get()
        jons_coworkers = await stream.read()
        print("These are Jons's coworkers:\n\n{}\n".format(
            jons_coworkers[0]))

    # Clean up
    finally:
        await r_and_d_belongs_to.delete()
        await c_and_p_belongs_to.delete()
        await jon_works_for.delete()
        await jon_member_of.delete()
        await leif_works_for.delete()
        await leif_member_of.delete()
        await dave_works_for.delete()
        await dave_member_of.delete()
        await dave_member_of_dep.delete()
        await zfail.delete()
        await west.delete()
        await r_and_d.delete()
        await c_and_p.delete()
        await jon.delete()
        await dave.delete()
        await leif.delete()
        await a_and_h.delete()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    setup("ws://localhost:8182", future_class=asyncio.Future)
    AsyncIOMainLoop().install()
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    loop.run_until_complete(main())
    tear_down()  # maybe this should be teardown
    loop.close()

Shut down Titan:

$ ./bin/titan.sh stop

To download and run the above example:

$ git clone https://gist.github.com/e6d622c003c8e0d4dc0d.git
$ cd e6d622c003c8e0d4dc0d/
$ python goblin_example.py

#Contributing Development of goblin happens at Github. We very much welcome your contribution of course. To do so, simply follow these guidelines:

• Fork goblin on github
• Create a topic branch git checkout -b my_topic_branch
• Push to your branch git push origin my_topic_branch
• Create a pull request against the dev branch.
• Alternatively, if you need to report a bug or an unexpected behaviour, make sure to include a mcve in your issue.

A good pull request should:

• Cover one bug fix or new feature only
• Include tests to cover the new code (inside the tests directory)
• Test coverage should only increase
• Preferably have one commit only (you can use rebase to combine several commits into one)
• Make sure all tests pass

Using vagrant environment

You can use vagrant to start a development environment with cassandra, elasticsearch and titan. It uses docker for running the necessary services.

Start the environment with:

$ vagrant up

Run the integrated tests with:

$ vagrant ssh -c 'cd /vagrant; ./run_tests.sh'

Integration with Python Asynchronous Frameworks

goblin is designed to interact smoothly with a variety of async frameworks such as aiohttp, Tornado, and Pulsar. The following examples demonstrate some simple integration with Pulsar using the gremlinclinet.aiohttp module.

Install dependencies:

$ pip install aiohttp
$ pip install pulsar
$ pip install git+https://github.com/ZEROFAIL/goblin.git@dev#egg=goblin

Tornado is installed by default with goblin, but since we aren't using it here it can be uninstalled:

$ pip uninstall tornado

Pulsar uses an actor based model as its basic building blocks. The following example shows how to create a simple application that uses actors to create vertices:

import asyncio
import pulsar

from goblin import properties
from goblin.connection import setup, tear_down
from goblin.models import Vertex
from gremlinclient.aiohttp_client import Pool


nodes = [
    {"name": "dave", "email": "[email protected]", "url": "https://dave.com/"},
    {"name": "jon", "email": "[email protected]", "url": "https://jon.com/"},
    {"name": "leif", "email": "[email protected]", "url": "https://leif.com/"}]


class Person(Vertex):
    name = properties.String()
    email = properties.Email()
    url = properties.URL()


@pulsar.command()
@asyncio.coroutine
def create_person(request, message):
    name = message["name"]
    url = message["url"]
    email = message["email"]
    person = yield from Person.create(name=name, url=url, email=email)
    request.actor.logger.info("Created: {}".format(person))
    return person


class Creator:

    def __init__(self):
        # Allow passing of config args
        setup('ws://localhost:8182', pool_class=Pool, future=asyncio.Future)
        cfg = pulsar.Config()
        cfg.parse_command_line()
        # Arbiter controls the main event loop in master process
        arbiter = pulsar.arbiter(cfg=cfg)
        self.cfg = arbiter.cfg
        # Conforms to the Pulsar definition of an async object
        self._loop = arbiter._loop
        self._loop.call_later(1, pulsar.ensure_future, self())
        arbiter.start()

    @asyncio.coroutine
    def __call__(self, actor=None):
        if actor is None:
            # This creates an actor in its own process with its own loop
            actor = yield from pulsar.spawn(name="creator")
        if nodes:
            node = nodes.pop()
            self._loop.logger.info("Creating: {}".format(node["name"]))
            # Send the task of creating a person to the actor
            yield from pulsar.send(actor, 'create_person', node)
            self._loop.call_soon(pulsar.ensure_future, self(actor))
        else:
            # Stop the event loop
            yield from tear_down()
            pulsar.arbiter().stop()

Run this example as follows:

$ git clone https://gist.github.com/322377bf995ddf768bdf.git
$ cd 322377bf995ddf768bdf/
$ python titan_pulsar.py

This is pretty low level, but Pulsar provides a higher level Application interface and ships with several batteries included apps out of the box. Here, we see how to create a JSON-RPC service with Titan:db...

"""
Basic JSON-RPC WSGI server with Pulsar. Could easily implement custom
RPC and serve on sockets/websockets.
"""
import asyncio

from pulsar import ensure_future
from pulsar.apps import rpc, wsgi
from pulsar.apps.wsgi.utils import LOGGER
from pulsar.utils.httpurl import JSON_CONTENT_TYPES

from goblin import properties
from goblin.connection import setup, tear_down
from goblin.models import Vertex
from gremlinclient.aiohttp_client import Pool


class Person(Vertex):
    name = properties.String()
    email = properties.Email()
    url = properties.URL()


class TitanRPC(rpc.JSONRPC):
    """RPC methods are defined here"""
    def rpc_create_person(self, request, name, email, url):
        person = yield from Person.create(name=name, url=url, email=email)
        LOGGER.info("Created: {}".format(person))
        return [person.name, person.id]


class TitanRPCSite(wsgi.LazyWsgi):
    """Handler for the RPCServer"""

    def __init__(self):
        setup("ws://localhost:8182", pool_class=Pool, future=asyncio.Future)

    def setup(self, environ):
        commands = rpc.PulsarServerCommands()
        json_handler = commands.putSubHandler('titan', TitanRPC())
        middleware = wsgi.Router("/", post=json_handler,
                                 accept_content_types=JSON_CONTENT_TYPES)
        response = [wsgi.GZipMiddleware(200)]
        return wsgi.WsgiHandler(middleware=[wsgi.wait_for_body_middleware,
                                            middleware],
                                response_middleware=response,
                                async=True)


class TitanRPCServer(wsgi.WSGIServer):
    """Adds a hook that closes pool when the server is stopped."""
    def monitor_stopping(self, monitor):
        loop = monitor._loop
        loop.call_soon(ensure_future, tear_down())


def server(callable=None, **params):
    return TitanRPCServer(TitanRPCSite(), **params)

Then to access the server, a simple client:

"""
Simple client for the JSONRPC Server
"""

import asyncio
from pulsar.apps import rpc

proxy = rpc.JsonProxy("http://localhost:8060")


@asyncio.coroutine
def main():
    name, vid = yield from proxy.titan.create_person(
        "jon", "[email protected]", "https://jon.com/")
    print("Created vertex {} named {}".format(vid, name))

To run this example, first run the server:

$ git clone https://gist.github.com/ab8a034d31d8776f9c04.git
$ cd ab8a034d31d8776f9c04/
$ python titan_rpc_server.py

Then open a new terminal and navigate to the same directory:

$ cd ab8a034d31d8776f9c04/
$ python titan_rpc_client.py