Transaction flow

Cypher transactions are managed over several distinct URIs that are designed to be used in a prescribed pattern. Facilities are provided to carry out the full transaction cycle over a single HTTP request, or over multiple HTTP requests.

The overall flow is illustrated below, with each box representing a separate HTTP request:

http cypher transaction api flow
Figure 1. Cypher transaction flow

Transaction lifetime

The state of each transaction is maintained on the server on which the transaction began. Transactions expire automatically after a period of inactivity. By default this is 60 seconds.

To keep a transaction alive without submitting new queries, an empty statement list can be posted to the /tx/{n} URI.