Return results in graph format
Deprecated in 5.26Not available on Aura

If you want to understand the graph structure of nodes and relationships returned by your query, you can specify the graph results data format. This is useful when you want to visualize the graph structure. The format collates all the nodes and relationships from all columns of the result, and also flattens collections of nodes and relationships, including paths.

Example request

  • POST http://localhost:7474/db/neo4j/tx/commit

  • Accept: application/json;charset=UTF-8

  • Content-Type: application/json

{
  "statements": [
    {
      "statement": "CREATE (bike:Bike {weight: 10}) CREATE (frontWheel:Wheel {spokes: 3}) CREATE (backWheel:Wheel {spokes: 32}) CREATE p1 = (bike)-[:HAS {position: 1}]->(frontWheel) CREATE p2 = (bike)-[:HAS {position: 2} ]->(backWheel) RETURN bike, p1, p2",
      "resultDataContents": ["row", "graph"]
    }
  ]
}

Example response

  • 200: OK

  • Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8

{
  "results" : [ {
    "columns" : [ "bike", "p1", "p2" ],
    "data" : [ {
      "row" : [ {
        "weight" : 10
      }, [ {
        "weight" : 10
      }, {
        "position" : 1
      }, {
        "spokes" : 3
      } ], [ {
        "weight" : 10
      }, {
        "position" : 2
      }, {
        "spokes" : 32
      } ] ],
      "meta" : [ {
        "id" : 8,
        "type" : "node",
        "deleted" : false
      }, [ {
        "id" : 8,
        "type" : "node",
        "deleted" : false
      }, {
        "id" : 0,
        "type" : "relationship",
        "deleted" : false
      }, {
        "id" : 9,
        "type" : "node",
        "deleted" : false
      } ], [ {
        "id" : 8,
        "type" : "node",
        "deleted" : false
      }, {
        "id" : 1,
        "type" : "relationship",
        "deleted" : false
      }, {
        "id" : 10,
        "type" : "node",
        "deleted" : false
      } ] ],
      "graph" : {
        "nodes" : [ {
          "id" : "8",
          "labels" : [ "Bike" ],
          "properties" : {
            "weight" : 10
          }
        }, {
          "id" : "9",
          "labels" : [ "Wheel" ],
          "properties" : {
            "spokes" : 3
          }
        }, {
          "id" : "10",
          "labels" : [ "Wheel" ],
          "properties" : {
            "spokes" : 32
          }
        } ],
        "relationships" : [ {
          "id" : "0",
          "type" : "HAS",
          "startNode" : "8",
          "endNode" : "9",
          "properties" : {
            "position" : 1
          }
        }, {
          "id" : "1",
          "type" : "HAS",
          "startNode" : "8",
          "endNode" : "10",
          "properties" : {
            "position" : 2
          }
        } ]
      }
    } ]
  } ],
  "errors" : [ ]
}