I guess that was 4 cases ;-)

On Saturday, February 1, 2014 10:23:49 AM UTC-5, brian wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> I can't give you the code, but I can probably work up a test case. 
>  Although it's actually pretty simple.  Just create two nodes with a 
> relationship between them.  Then issue a Cypher query that would find one 
> of the nodes (it could just be a simple query on some property of one of 
> the nodes) and delete that node.  So something like
>
> START n = node(*) WHERE n.myprop = something DELETE n
>
> As to what error I'm expecting...  I would expect an error in the HTTP 
> status code.  But I understand that there's some controversy around this 
> since the resource I'm addressing via the /cypher endpoint is the query 
> itself and the query was valid.  This is part of the problem in issuing 
> queries in a RESTful API.  Anyway, could you tell me what I should expect? 
>  I think there are 3 cases:
>
> - The query was valid and the delete was successful and one or more 
> entities were deleted.  I would expect to get an HTTP 200. Not sure what I 
> should see in the payload although some indication of which entities or how 
> many entities were deleted would be helpful.
> - The query was valid and the delete was successful, but no entities were 
> deleted because the predicate didn't match any entities.  I would expect an 
> HTTP 200 here.
> - The query was valid and the delete was NOT successful due to an error 
> (such as the constraint violation I described). What is the expected 
> behavior here?
> - The query was invalid.  I'd expect at least an error in the HTTP status 
> (probably a 400) and maybe some more details in the payload.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -brian
>
>
> On Friday, January 31, 2014 8:46:05 PM UTC-5, Michael Hunger wrote:
>>
>> Do you have the example code & REST call?
>>
>> What kind of error are you referring to? http status code or payload ?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> Am 31.01.2014 um 22:50 schrieb brian <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've constructed a query that will result in a DELETE on a Node with 
>> existing relationships. When executed in the Neo4j browser, this returns an 
>> Exception as expected.  And I can see a stack trace in console.log that 
>> ends with a ConstraintViolationException (also as expected).  When I 
>> execute this same query via the REST API using the /cypher endpoint I still 
>> see the exception in console.log, but no error is returned by the REST API. 
>>  I'm pretty sure this is a change in behavior as I now have a unit test 
>> that is failing against Neo4j 2.0, but is not failing against Neo4j 
>> 1.8.x/1.9.x.
>>
>> I'd be happy to create an issue on this, but wanted to get some feedback 
>> first.
>>
>> -brian
>>
>>
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