Hello,
I'm new to Neo && presume the post fits better here than on SO && feeling
courageous.
I wrote an app to update my graph via the REST API (using
org.neo4j.rest.graphdb.RestGraphDatabase).
My use case is getting nodes I previously created to set a property which
is absent (or not).
1/
Naturally, I wrote
if (node.getProperty("propLabel") == null)
departement.setProperty("propLabel", "whatever");
but getProperty throws a NotFoundException this leads to writing the
following code
try{
if (node.getProperty("propLabel") != null &&
!node.getProperty("propLabel").equals("something"))
departement.setProperty("propLabel", "whatever");
}catch(NotFoundException e){
departement.setProperty("propLabel", "whatever"); // SAME CODE HERE !!
OH NO !!!
}
See, code repetition.
And a costly catch.
Pattern to be repeated for each different property to add/update...
Of course, I could use a wrapper to hide this in an util class of mine but
that would not fix it.
Therefore, I propose that *Node.getProperty() should return null*.
Is The Architect reading this ? ;)
Best Regards,
@wadael
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