Vertex IDs not mapped when writing Tuple TO_CSV

Problem
When writing query results to csv, I ran into a scenario where the internal vid’s are not mapped to external ids. This happens when the result set is a user defined tuple. For example:

    CREATE QUERY sampleQueryTOCSV(/* Parameters here */) FOR GRAPH MyGraph SYNTAX V2 { 
    /* 
    Constructs triples and writes to local file
    */

    TYPEDEF TUPLE <Vertex src, STRING edg, VERTEX tgt> TRIPLE_RECORD;  
  
    SetAccum<TRIPLE_RECORD> @@triples;
  
    FILE file1 ("/home/tigergraph/data/triples.txt");

    start = {ANY.*};
  
    res = SELECT tgt FROM start:s - ((ANY|ANY>):e1) - ANY:tgt 
          WHERE s != tgt 
          ACCUM @@triples += TRIPLE_RECORD(s, e1.type, tgt);

    PRINT @@triples TO_CSV file1;
    PRINT COUNT(@@triples), @@triples;
    PRINT "Written results to file.";
    }

The fields src and tgt as seen in the triples.txt file are the internal integer ids, while the JSON response (@@triples) contains the external ids.

Expected result
When writing the result set to either csv or json I would expect to resolve the vertex ids to the external ids.

Other observations
Situations where the TO_CSV capability does work as expected (where vertex ids are mapped to external ids), is when a vertex set is written directly, or as part of an accumulator e.g. SetAccum<Vertex> @@v_collection

Is this behaviour expected? Is there a way to push the output through the ID mapper?

This behavior is expected, as the id mapping happens later in the process.

If you want the specific fields available in the TO_CSV, then you can store the vertex id’s on the vertex and retrieve them explicitly.

I’ll check with product to make sure this is still the correct understanding.