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.

[JackyYangPassion]

Hi @arthur-bigeard-gdotv

As a heavy user of HugeGraph myself, I would be very interested in trying out your dev build. I'd love to see how the integration handles under my current workflows and provide some feedback from a user/contributor perspective.

Please let me know where I can access the build or if there’s a specific branch you’d like me to pull from. Looking forward to testing it out!

[arthur-bigeard-gdotv]

Great, from my perspective the main thing I haven't tested yet is performance against larger datasets, and possibly some more varied datasets. @imbajin if there happens to be sample datasets of various sizes and complexity available and easy to load within hugegraph that would help me improve our automated test suite on the integration.

I've put together developer builds for Windows and macOS that can be downloaded using the links below. I haven't yet updated the docs in those build but the connection process should be straightforward: Click on create connection, enter your hugegraph database host/port number, credentials (if required), graph space and graph name, and you're good to go. As far as this integration goes, pretty much all our features are available (querying, graph exploration, graph data editing, graph schema loading/view, etc) so it should feel pretty complete!

Note that you'll be prompted to sign up for a trial - you can either do that or email us at support@gdotv.com (support email address so my colleagues can also pick it up if needed) and we'll send you a license key (free of course) to use.
The download links:

• Windows: https://dl.gdotv.com/dev-binaries/gdotv-hugegraph.exe
• macOS (Intel): https://dl.gdotv.com/dev-binaries/gdotv-hugegraph.dmg
• macOS (ARM64): https://dl.gdotv.com/dev-binaries/gdotv-hugegraph-arm64.dmg

Very excited to hear feedback from the community, thanks @JackyYangPassion for offering your time to check it out, it's much appreciated!