OK. It used to be an attribute of the individual rows as well. That went
away.
That's what I'd been using.
On 08/16/2015 01:38 AM, Nigel Small wrote:
> The *RecordList* returned from *cypher.execute* has a *columns*
> attribute that contains this information:
>
> >>> rl = graph.cypher.execute("MERGE (a:Person) RETURN a")
> >>> rl.columns
> ('a',)
>
> It looks like this has not been included in the docs though for some
> reason so I'll get that added in.
>
> Nigel
>
> On 14 August 2015 at 20:36, Alan Robertson <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Hi Nigel,
>
> There is an issue what has caused me grief nearly every release
> you've put out.
>
> When one issues a cypher stream query, there is some kind of an
> object which you return which has rows and columns. Its name has
> changed from time to time, and its structure has changed from time
> to time.
>
> But there is one thing which I need and which you have never
> provided in a way that works from release to release. As a result,
> I've had to do delve into your source code and create a series of
> hacks to do this for me.
>
> I need to know (introspect) the names of the columns in the return
> result from the query. This is a very reasonable thing to want to
> know. I think in the 2.6 releases you called it "columns". Now, it
> appears that the only way to get the list of columns (labels,
> whatever) from the result of a query is to use this expression:
> row.__producer__.columns
>
> Pylint objects to my doing this, as it should. And I object to
> having to do this as well. Because this is at least the 3rd
> iteration of how one goes about getting the list of columns from
> the result of a Cypher query.
>
> Since I'm building an API on top of your API -- without parsing
> and understanding Cypher (which has even *more* pitfalls), of
> knowing what columns are going to come back from the query. So, I
> need to introspect the results of the Cypher return result.
>
> *Could you have mercy on me and provide a stable and documented
> interface for returning the names of the columns from the result
> of a Cypher query?*
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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