apoc.refactor.rename.nodeProperty

Procedure APOC Core

apoc.refactor.rename.nodeProperty(oldName, newName, [nodes], {config}) | rename all node’s property from 'oldName' to 'newName'. If 'nodes' is provided renaming is applied to this set only

Signature

apoc.refactor.rename.nodeProperty(oldName :: STRING?, newName :: STRING?, nodes = [] :: LIST? OF NODE?, config = {} :: MAP?) :: (batches :: INTEGER?, total :: INTEGER?, timeTaken :: INTEGER?, committedOperations :: INTEGER?, failedOperations :: INTEGER?, failedBatches :: INTEGER?, retries :: INTEGER?, errorMessages :: MAP?, batch :: MAP?, operations :: MAP?, constraints :: LIST? OF STRING?, indexes :: LIST? OF STRING?)

Input parameters

Name Type Default

oldName

STRING?

null

newName

STRING?

null

nodes

LIST? OF NODE?

[]

config

MAP?

{}

Output parameters

Name Type

batches

INTEGER?

total

INTEGER?

timeTaken

INTEGER?

committedOperations

INTEGER?

failedOperations

INTEGER?

failedBatches

INTEGER?

retries

INTEGER?

errorMessages

MAP?

batch

MAP?

operations

MAP?

constraints

LIST? OF STRING?

indexes

LIST? OF STRING?

Usage Examples

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

CREATE (mark:Engineer {name: "Mark", city: "London"})
CREATE (jennifer:Engineer {name: "Jennifer", city: "St Louis"})
CREATE (michael:Engineer {name: "Michael", city: "Dresden"})
CREATE (jim:Engineer {name: "Jim", city: "London"})
CREATE (alistair:Engineer {name: "Alistair", city: "London"})

MERGE (jim)-[:COLLEAGUES {since: date("2006-05-01")}]->(alistair)
MERGE (mark)-[:COLLEAGUES {since: date("2018-02-01")}]->(jennifer)
MERGE (mark)-[:COLLEAGUES {since: date("2013-05-01")}]->(michael);

The following query changes the node property city to location for all nodes with the DevRel label:

MATCH (person:DevRel)
WITH collect(person) AS people
CALL apoc.refactor.rename.nodeProperty("city", "location", people)
YIELD batches, total, timeTaken, committedOperations
RETURN batches, total, timeTaken, committedOperations;
Table 1. Results
batches total timeTaken committedOperations

1

3

0

3

The following query returns all the nodes in our graph after this refactoring has been done:

MATCH (n)
RETURN (n)
Table 2. Results
n

(:DevRel {name: "Jennifer", location: "St Louis"})

(:DevRel {name: "Michael", location: "Dresden"})

(:Engineer {city: "London", name: "Jim"})

(:DevRel {name: "Mark", location: "London"})

(:Engineer {city: "London", name: "Alistair"})

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