Todd, Jacob added the full query endpoint yesterday, so you should use snapshot builds for this.
Sent from my phone. On Apr 30, 2011 2:48 PM, "Todd Chaffee" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Unless I'm misunderstanding something, what you suggested won't help. I > have only 1 key: "name". If I search on it with a query like > ?query=name:*a* it is going to return all nodes with the letter 'a' in the > name. The result set could be over 100,000 nodes. I want it to return > just the first 4 nodes. Does that make sense? If there is a simpler way of > achieving this aside from a custom plugin I am all ears. > > When did the full lucene query API syntax become available with the REST > API? Docs have only changed in the last few days but I'm guessing (hoping) > the docs were a bit behind and now reflect version 1.3 of the server? > > Thanks, > Todd > > > >> Todd, >> >> what about the full lucene query API syntax available with the REST API >> changes ? >> >> >> http://components.neo4j.org/neo4j-server/snapshot/rest.html#Index_search_-_Using_a_query_language >> >> e.g. >> >> GET /index/node/my_nodes?query=the_key:the_* AND the_other_key:[1 TO 100] >> >> with curl: >> curl -H Accept:application/json >> http://localhost:7474/db/data/index/node/my_nodes?query=the_key:the_*%20AND%20the_other_key:[1%20TO%20100] >> >> Shouldn't that help too? >> >> Cheers >> >> Michael >> >> >> Am 30.04.2011 um 01:46 schrieb Todd Chaffee: >> >> > This doesn't solve the lack of paging in the REST API, but it is a small >> > example of how I was able to limit the returned results for a large >> query. >> > >> > Using the REST API query, looking for all nodes with the letter 'a' >> > somewhere in the name key, would look something like this: >> > >> > curl -H Accept:application/json >> > http://localhost:7474/db/data/index/node/names/name?query=*a* >> > >> > >> > For my installation, that tries to return a few hundred thousand >> > nodes. Not a good idea. >> > >> > >> > The new version looks like this, using the server plugin feature >> > (http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/stable/server-plugins.html): >> > >> > >> > curl -X POST -H Accept:appplication/json -H >> > Content-Type:application/json >> > http://localhost:7474/db/data/ext/NodeIndex/graphdb/limit_by_count -d >> > '{"index":"names", "key":"name", "query":"*a*", "count":4}' >> > >> > >> > With the interesting part being the count of 4 at the end. Only 4 >> > nodes are returned and it happens FAST because on the server side the >> > iteration stops at 4, only 4 nodes are created, and only 4 sent over >> > the wire. >> > >> > >> > More documentation and source code showing how I did this over at github. >> > Hope this helps some of you out there while we wait for the REST api to >> > support paging. >> > >> > https://github.com/tchaffee/Neo4J-REST-PHP-API-client >> > >> > Todd >> > >> > -- >> > >> > MIKAMAI | Making Media Social >> > http://mikamai.com >> > +447868260229 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Neo4j mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
