Extensions and Gremlin

Its possible to write Gremlin based extensions. To do so, you will need to make sure to make use of GMaven in your pom.xml. For example:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.gmaven</groupId>
    <artifactId>gmaven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.3</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>generateStubs</goal>
                <goal>compile</goal>
                <goal>generateTestStubs</goal>
                <goal>testCompile</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <providerSelection>1.7</providerSelection>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Next you can then create a Gremlin-based extension.

@ExtensionNaming(namespace = "ex", name = "gremlinExample")
public class GremlinBasedExtension extends AbstractRexsterExtension {

    static {
        Gremlin.load();
    }

    @ExtensionDefinition(extensionPoint = ExtensionPoint.VERTEX)
    @ExtensionDescriptor(description = "Traversal with native Gremlin")
    public ExtensionResponse evaluate(@RexsterContext RexsterResourceContext context,
                                      @RexsterContext Vertex v) {

        JSONObject results = new JSONObject();
        results.put("foaf count", v.out('knows').out('knows').count())
        return ExtensionResponse.ok(results);
    }
}

NOTE Like all extensions, don’t forget to add the extension’s full class name to your

src/resources/META-INF/services/com.tinkerpop.rexster.extension.RexsterExtension

Please see Deploying an Extension for more details