I was asking really only for the console. I don't see myself needing to use the ID programmatically -- except it might be a minor optimization to be able to get only node URLs if I already have node data, and I just want to compare the output of this query with the nodes I already have.
For the console, the only thing is that nodes w/ many properties (and possibly long values, e.g. descriptions) totally litter the console, making output impossible to read or make sense of. Shortening the results to just IDs (along with selected properties) would be convenient in some cases. In many cases, just the properties aren't identifying enough. Hope this helps, and thanks for the consideration! Aseem On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Andres Taylor < andres.tay...@neotechnology.com> wrote: > Hi Aseem, > > For various reasons, we've (so far) decided against allowing the id to be > something you can output. Could you tell me a bit more about why you would > like to return just the id? > > It's not hard to do, but it would make future parts of Cypher harder to do. > If there are valid use cases we've missed, we'll reconsider. > > Regards, > > Andrés > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Aseem Kishore <aseem.kish...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > > Is there any way I can have Cypher return/print node IDs? If I specify > for > > it to return a node, it returns/prints all data about that node, which > can > > be excessive. But the problem is, the node's ID isn't a property on that > > node. I've tried both node~ID and node~SELF, like rel~TYPE, but neither > > works. > > > > If this isn't possible today, consider it a feature request. =) Thanks! > > > > Aseem > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
