Hi Suhail, this is expected behaviour. PUT semantics in general means "replace any existing data with the data I'm sending over right now". So if you'd like to add/set a property "foo" (and only "foo") please use:
PUT /node/123/properties/foo with "bar" as the payload/entity 2010/8/23, Suhail Ahmed <suhail...@gmail.com>: > Hi David, > > I was just trying out the operations provided here : > http://components.neo4j.org/neo4j-rest/ . I did the "Set properties on node" > followed by "Set property on node" followed by get node. The response codes > are coming back correctly. In terms of what I am expecting: > > 1. After the first PUT I should GET back > > { "name": "Thomas Anderson", > "profession": "Hacker" > } > > > 2. After the second PUT I should get back > > { "name": "Thomas Anderson", > "profession": "Hacker", > "foo" : "bar" > } > > > instead I get back > > { > "foo": "bar" > } > > > Let me know if you need more information. > > Thanks > cheers > su./hail > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:10 AM, David Montag < > david.mon...@neotechnology.com> wrote: > >> Hi Suhail, >> >> Could you explain the REST operation you're doing, what results you would >> expect from that operation, and what actually happens? >> >> David >> >> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Suhail Ahmed <suhail...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > i have been trying out the Neo4j REST interface and I found that PUT >> > operation was replacing the existing properties of a node with a new >> > one. >> > This was happening on single values as well as multiple values. Is this >> > a >> > bug or am I doing something wrong here. I am using the REST plugin with >> > Firefox. >> > >> > Cheers >> > su./hail >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Neo4j mailing list >> > User@lists.neo4j.org >> > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo4j mailing list >> User@lists.neo4j.org >> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > -- Mattias Persson, [matt...@neotechnology.com] Hacker, Neo Technology www.neotechnology.com _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
