Hello Mark,
You got it completely :). by validation, I mean to say to check if nodeId
is intact and not manipulated by client side. I got
repository.save(someobject); to save the node if its new request or to
update the node if nodeId is already present in that request. Consider a
scenario here, I would like to design in following way:
class User {
@GraphId
Long nodeId
String name;
String surname;
}
User obj = new User();
// initialize Class with setters
obj = repository.save(obj); // this will save and create new node. obj
returned at client side
Now client made update request with some additional changes as follows:
name="xyz";
nodeId=null; // here he may manipulate it to some null value or other value
repository.save(obj); // now here repository would create a new node again
if nodeId is null !!
So that's my point, even if I am using a separate field to create my own id
and save with node to serve my purpose. that would require additional call
to db to check/validate if that node present which I feel is not good. So
purpose of setting nodeId greater than 0 would serve my purpose as I can
check it nodeId>0 or !=null, in my code and alert user about manipulation.
I hope I made it clear enough this time. am I going in correct way ?
Thanks alot.
On Thursday, 4 September 2014 01:00:57 UTC+5:30, Mark Findlater wrote:
>
> Hey Aman I am not sure that I 100% understand, but you can be sure that
> Neo will generate node ids greater than 0 for each new node you create.
> With your @NodeEntity annotated classes you will map the ID to a field
> using the @GraphId annotation. You can safely do front end validation on
> node id > 0.
>
> You can not set this ID value, this is the internal ID used by Neo and it
> is important to realise that it is not incremental and that the IDs do get
> recycled (when nodes get deleted the ID of that node will be re-used). It
> is therefore recommended that you add you own identification fields if you
> need to use the ID in any 3rd party systems. Neo does not have a mechanism
> for generating this separate external identifier for you, but there are a
> couple of handy blog post which talk about how to leverage event hooks to
> add the data at node creation time - this
> <http://blog.armbruster-it.de/2013/08/assigning-uuids-to-neo4j-nodes-and-relationships/>
>
> being one of them. I am currently trying to utilise the MERGE operator to
> create my nodes as it has handy ON CREATE/ON MATCH semantics which can
> allow autoincrement type behaviour, see this gist
> <http://www.neo4j.org/graphgist?8012859> - this works great but I have
> had issues getting it to work when currency/HA is involved.
>
> With regards to validating if the request from the front end is valid, how
> would you validate that with or without Neo?
>
> Does that address what you were asking, sorry if I've missed the point,
>
> M
>
> On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:09:13 UTC+1, Aman Gupta wrote:
>>
>> each node which is saved in neo4j database, has an nodeId 0
>>>
>>
>> Little correction here. not each node. but the one which get created
>> first. :)
>>
>> On Thursday, 4 September 2014 00:36:11 UTC+5:30, Aman Gupta wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> I am designing an application with several Domain/ entity classes with
>>> Jersey and Spring integration. Thing is, during initial time, or say first
>>> execution, each node which is saved in neo4j database, has an nodeId 0. Its
>>> a point of my interest. How can we make it sure that each nodeId should be
>>> atleast greater than 0 ?
>>>
>>> Why I need this ?
>>>
>>> I need this because I think, it would help me while validating request,
>>> received from front end. Consider a scenario of Updating a node which hold
>>> nodeId value as 0. Now what would be the best approach to check if nodeId
>>> is correct or not ? Indeed I can make call to db and be done with it, but I
>>> dont want that. I saw in case of Spring Data JPA, where we have
>>> @GeneratedValue from J2EE, which atleast provide some sort of control to
>>> generate Id of our choice. but I didn't or say I am yet not able to find
>>> any such provision if made.
>>>
>>> Is there any thing which I am missing confrontational points ? FYI I
>>> have Spring Data Neo4j latest stable release and Neo4j 2.1.3 server.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
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