GRAPH

GRAPH ( recordset , iterations , processor [, UNORDERED | ORDERED( bool ) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ ( numthreads ) ] ] [, ALGORITHM( name ) ] )

recordset	The initial set of records to process.
iterations	The number of times to call the processor function.
processor	The function attribute to process the input. This function may use the following as arguments:
	ROWSET(LEFT) Specifies the set of input datasets, which may be indexed to specify the result set from any specific iteration -- ROWSET(LEFT)[0] indicates the initial input recordset while ROWSET(LEFT)[1] indicates the result set from the first iteration. This may also be used as the first parameter to the RANGE function to specify a set of datasets (allowing the graph to efficiently process N-ary merge/join arguments). COUNTER Specifies an INTEGER parameter for the graph iteration number.
UNORDERED	Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.
ORDERED	Specifies the significance of the output record order.
bool	When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.
STABLE	Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.
UNSTABLE	Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.
PARALLEL	Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.
numthreads	Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using numthreads threads.
ALGORITHM	Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.
name	The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.
Return:	GRAPH returns the record set result of the last of the iterations.

The GRAPH function is similar to the LOOP function, but it executes as though all the iterations of the processor call were expanded out, removing any branches that can't be executed, and then joined together. The resulting graph is as efficient as if the graph had been expanded out by hand.

Example:

namesRec := RECORD
  STRING20 lname;
  STRING10 fname;
  UNSIGNED2 age := 25;
  UNSIGNED2 ctr := 0;
END;
namesTable2 := DATASET([{'Flintstone','Fred',35},
    {'Flintstone','Wilma',33},
    {'Jetson','Georgie',10},
    {'Mr. T','Z-man'}], namesRec);

loopBody(SET OF DATASET(namesRec) ds, UNSIGNED4 c) :=
      PROJECT(ds[c-1],    //ds[0]=original input
     TRANSFORM(namesRec,
    SELF.age := LEFT.age+c; //c is graph COUNTER
    SELF.ctr := COUNTER;    //PROJECT's COUNTER
    SELF := LEFT));

g1 := GRAPH(namesTable2,10,loopBody(ROWSET(LEFT),COUNTER));

OUTPUT(g1);