apoc.export.graphml.query

Procedure

apoc.export.graphml.query(statement STRING, file STRING, config MAP<STRING, ANY>) - exports the given NODE and RELATIONSHIP values from the Cypher statement to the provided GraphML file.

This procedure is not considered safe to run from multiple threads. It is therefore not supported by the parallel runtime (introduced in Neo4j 5.13). For more information, see the Cypher Manual → Parallel runtime.

Signature

apoc.export.graphml.query(query :: STRING, file :: STRING, config :: MAP) :: (file :: STRING, source :: STRING, format :: STRING, nodes :: INTEGER, relationships :: INTEGER, properties :: INTEGER, time :: INTEGER, rows :: INTEGER, batchSize :: INTEGER, batches :: INTEGER, done :: BOOLEAN, data :: STRING)

Input parameters

Name Type Default

query

STRING

null

file

STRING

null

config

MAP

null

Output parameters

Name Type

file

STRING

source

STRING

format

STRING

nodes

INTEGER

relationships

INTEGER

properties

INTEGER

time

INTEGER

rows

INTEGER

batchSize

INTEGER

batches

INTEGER

done

BOOLEAN

data

STRING

Usage Examples

The examples in this section are based on the following sample graph:

CREATE (TheMatrix:Movie {title:'The Matrix', released:1999, tagline:'Welcome to the Real World'})
CREATE (Keanu:Person {name:'Keanu Reeves', born:1964})
CREATE (Carrie:Person {name:'Carrie-Anne Moss', born:1967})
CREATE (Laurence:Person {name:'Laurence Fishburne', born:1961})
CREATE (Hugo:Person {name:'Hugo Weaving', born:1960})
CREATE (LillyW:Person {name:'Lilly Wachowski', born:1967})
CREATE (LanaW:Person {name:'Lana Wachowski', born:1965})
CREATE (JoelS:Person {name:'Joel Silver', born:1952})
CREATE
(Keanu)-[:ACTED_IN {roles:['Neo']}]->(TheMatrix),
(Carrie)-[:ACTED_IN {roles:['Trinity']}]->(TheMatrix),
(Laurence)-[:ACTED_IN {roles:['Morpheus']}]->(TheMatrix),
(Hugo)-[:ACTED_IN {roles:['Agent Smith']}]->(TheMatrix),
(LillyW)-[:DIRECTED]->(TheMatrix),
(LanaW)-[:DIRECTED]->(TheMatrix),
(JoelS)-[:PRODUCED]->(TheMatrix);

The Neo4j Browser visualization below shows the imported graph:

play movies
Figure 1. Movies Graph Visualization

The apoc.export.graphml.query procedure exports the results of a Cypher query to a CSV file or as a stream.

The following query exports all DIRECTED relationships and the nodes with Person and Movie labels on either side of that relationship to the file movies-directed.graphml:

WITH "MATCH path = (person:Person)-[directed:DIRECTED]->(movie)
      RETURN person, directed, movie" AS query
CALL apoc.export.graphml.query(query, "movies-directed.graphml", {})
YIELD file, source, format, nodes, relationships, properties, time, rows, batchSize, batches, done, data
RETURN file, source, format, nodes, relationships, properties, time, rows, batchSize, batches, done, data;
Table 1. Results
file source format nodes relationships properties time rows batchSize batches done data

"movies-directed.graphml"

"statement: nodes(3), rels(2)"

"graphml"

3

2

7

2

5

-1

0

TRUE

NULL

The contents of movies-directed.csv are shown below:

movies-directed.graphml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<graphml xmlns="http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns/1.0/graphml.xsd">
<key id="born" for="node" attr.name="born"/>
<key id="name" for="node" attr.name="name"/>
<key id="tagline" for="node" attr.name="tagline"/>
<key id="label" for="node" attr.name="label"/>
<key id="title" for="node" attr.name="title"/>
<key id="released" for="node" attr.name="released"/>
<key id="label" for="edge" attr.name="label"/>
<graph id="G" edgedefault="directed">
<node id="n188" labels=":Movie"><data key="labels">:Movie</data><data key="title">The Matrix</data><data key="tagline">Welcome to the Real World</data><data key="released">1999</data></node>
<node id="n193" labels=":Person"><data key="labels">:Person</data><data key="born">1967</data><data key="name">Lilly Wachowski</data></node>
<node id="n194" labels=":Person"><data key="labels">:Person</data><data key="born">1965</data><data key="name">Lana Wachowski</data></node>
<edge id="e271" source="n193" target="n188" label="DIRECTED"><data key="label">DIRECTED</data></edge>
<edge id="e272" source="n194" target="n188" label="DIRECTED"><data key="label">DIRECTED</data></edge>
</graph>
</graphml>

The following query returns a stream of all DIRECTED relationships and the nodes with Person and Movie labels on either side of that relationship:

WITH "MATCH path = (person:Person)-[directed:DIRECTED]->(movie)
      RETURN person, directed, movie" AS query
CALL apoc.export.graphml.query(query, null, {stream: true})
YIELD file, nodes, relationships, properties, data
RETURN file, nodes, relationships, properties, data;
Table 2. Results
file nodes relationships properties data

NULL

3

2

7

 
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
 <graphml xmlns="\"http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns\""
          xmlns:xsi="\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\""
          xsi:schemaLocation="\"http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns/1.0/graphml.xsd\"">
   <key id="\"born\"" for="\"node\"" attr.name="\"born\""/>
   <key id="\"name\"" for="\"node\"" attr.name="\"name\""/>
   <key id="\"tagline\"" for="\"node\"" attr.name="\"tagline\""/>
   <key id="\"label\"" for="\"node\"" attr.name="\"label\""/>
   <key id="\"title\"" for="\"node\"" attr.name="\"title\""/>
   <key id="\"released\"" for="\"node\"" attr.name="\"released\""/>
   <key id="\"label\"" for="\"edge\"" attr.name="\"label\""/>
   <graph id="\"G\"" edgedefault="\"directed\"">
     <node id="\"n188\"" labels="\":Movie\"">
       <data key="\"labels\"">:Movie</data>
       <data key="\"title\"">The Matrix</data>
       <data key="\"tagline\"">Welcome to the Real World</data>
       <data key="\"released\"">1999</data>
     </node>
     <node id="\"n193\"" labels="\":Person\"">
       <data key="\"labels\"">:Person</data>
       <data key="\"born\"">1967</data>
       <data key="\"name\"">Lilly Wachowski</data>
     </node>
     <node id="\"n194\"" labels="\":Person\"">
       <data key="\"labels\"">:Person</data>
       <data key="\"born\"">1965</data>
       <data key="\"name\"">Lana Wachowski</data>
     </node>
     <edge id="\"e271\"" source="\"n193\"" target="\"n188\"" label="\"DIRECTED\"">
       <data key="\"label\"">DIRECTED</data>
     </edge>
     <edge id="\"e272\"" source="\"n194\"" target="\"n188\"" label="\"DIRECTED\"">
       <data key="\"label\"">DIRECTED</data>
     </edge>
   </graph>
 </graphml>
  "

More documentation of apoc.export.graphml.query