Neo4j REST/Server handles array values:
{ "array-property": [10, 321, 45] }
2010/11/24 Max De Marzi Jr. <maxdema...@gmail.com>
> BSON seems to have an Array type as well.
>
> http://bsonspec.org/#/specification
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Javier de la Rosa <ver...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > IMHO, the data types that are not supported by the Neo4j REST API are
> > Date and Binary data. So it could be a solution add a Neo4j special
> > dictionary for these cases:
> > {
> > "address":
> > {
> > "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
> > "city": "New York",
> > "state": "NY",
> > "postalCode": "10021",
> > "birthdate": {
> > "__ntype__": "/Date(36779659600.0)/", # Timestamp in
> > Javascript supports BC dates
> > "__nval__": "1971-02-03T00:00:00" # ISO Format also
> > supports BC dates
> > }
> > },
> > }
> > On the other hand, I don't know how Neo4j handles Arrays and Objects
> > in order to put them like values in properties when they came from a
> > REST client. It Neo4j doesn't handle this, then it's not a problem to
> > have some special dics for dates.
> >
> > All of this come from the limitations on JSON by itself. It's more
> > usual of what we think to use a domain specific implementation for the
> > JSON interchange. For example, Cassandra uses JSON2SStable to
> > import/export data, and mongoDB created BSON [1] to support Date and
> > binary data.
> >
> > Best regards.
> >
> >
> > [1] http://bsonspec.org/
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 19:02, Max De Marzi Jr. <maxdema...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> What about:
> >>
> >> "data": {"name" : "NeoS::Max"}, "age": {"NeoI::31" }
> >> "data": {"name" : "NeoS[]::Max,Javier,Peter"}, "age":
> {"NeoI[]::31,29,33" }
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Rick Bullotta
> >> <rick.bullo...@burningskysoftware.com> wrote:
> >>> FWIW, we store all dates as milliseconds relative to UTC, and pass them
> >>> around in that format. We identify the data types of fields/properties
> in
> >>> separate metadata structures embedded in the response, making the
> returned
> >>> content easily parsable and interpretable by relatively dumb clients.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: user-boun...@lists.neo4j.org [mailto:
> user-boun...@lists.neo4j.org] On
> >>> Behalf Of Javier de la Rosa
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 4:26 PM
> >>> To: Neo4j user discussions
> >>> Subject: [SPAM] Re: [Neo4j] Datetimes in Neo4j REST Server
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 16:05, Peter Neubauer
> >>> <peter.neuba...@neotechnology.com> wrote:
> >>>> Jim, what do you say about that? How type safe can we make the REST
> >>>> API? At least I think this warrants an issue over at
> >>>> https://trac.neo4j.org/ticket/286 for this.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you Peter and Max for the quick response. It would be great to
> >>> have well defined data types in the REST server.
> >>> I hope the solution also works in order to talk to the server what
> >>> types are sent to it, because now we have no way to create Date or
> >>> List objects like properties in nodes or relationships trhough the
> >>> REST API.
> >>>
> >>> It's not easy manage with Dates and objects in JSON. The proposal in
> >>> https://trac.neo4j.org/ticket/286 adds some overhead although I think
> >>> is a very good solution. However, there wouldn't be backwards
> >>> compatibility.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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