Script to bootstrap the Python console ready to talk to a Gremlin Server #138

Author: krlawrence

sample-code/bootstrap-console.py

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+# Configure the environment so the Python Console can connect to
+# a Gremlin Server using gremlin-python and a web socket connection.
+#
+# To use this script start Python using:
+#   python3 -i bootstrap-console.py
+
+from gremlin_python import statics
+from gremlin_python.structure.graph import Graph
+from gremlin_python.process.graph_traversal import __
+from gremlin_python.process.strategies import *
+from gremlin_python.driver.driver_remote_connection import DriverRemoteConnection
+from gremlin_python.process.traversal import * 
+import os
+
+# This script assumes that two environment variables have been defined
+# containing the DNS name of the Gremlin Server and the port it is listening on.
+# If the environment variables are not found, defaults will be used.
+skey = "GREMLIN_SERVER_NAME"
+pkey = "GREMLIN_SERVER_PORT"
+
+server = os.environ[skey] if skey in os.environ else 'localhost'
+port = os.environ[pkey] if pkey in os.environ else '8182'
+
+endpoint = 'ws://' + server + ':' + port + '/gremlin'
+print(endpoint)
+
+graph=Graph()
+connection = DriverRemoteConnection(endpoint,'g')
+g = graph.traversal().withRemote(connection)