Hi Greg, sorry for the late reply. I am not super familiar with Gelly, but the use cases you describe sound quite common to me. I had a (very) brief look at the PR and the changes seem to be rather lightweight. So, in my opinion this looks like a valuable addition.
Thanks, Fabian 2016-04-21 18:06 GMT+02:00 Greg Hogan <c...@greghogan.com>: > Vasia and I are looking for additional feedback on FLINK-3771. This ticket > [0] and PR [1] provides methods for translating the type or value of graph > labels, vertex values, and edge values. My use cases are provided in JIRA, > but I think users will find many more. > > Translators compose well with graph generators and graph algorithms, which > are restricted to emitting a wide type. Translators can also be used for > processing and merging input data. > > The equivalent facility on DataSet is simply a MapFunction. Graphs have > additional structure in having two DataSets, vertices and edges, as well as > the label type binding the two. > > The PR provides three basic implementations of the Translator interface as > well as Translate methods which operate on graphs, vertices, and edges. > > Greg > > [0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3771 > [1] https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1900/files >
