See the other mail for a pointer :) Cheers,
/peter neubauer GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://startupbootcamp.org/ - Öresund - Innovation happens HERE. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Matt Luongo <m...@scholr.ly> wrote: > +1, we could really use that. Client-side sorting sucks. > > -- > Matt Luongo > Co-Founder, Scholr.ly > > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Aseem Kishore <aseem.kish...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > I've just spent a bunch of time reading into how one can control the > > ordering of a traverse beyond simple "breadth first" or "depth first". > More > > precisely, even when breadth first, how one can control *which* neighbors > > are traversed first. > > > > (It matters less in which order they're traversed vs. which order they're > > returned if you're returning all results, since you can just sort on the > > client. But it matters a lot if you want to use the paged traverser, > since > > you're then only returning the first results.) > > > > I've learned that this is doable from Java by writing your own > > BranchSelector implementation: > > > > http://components.neo4j.org/neo4j/1.4.1/apidocs/ > > > > I've found the built-in implementations, e.g. the pre-order breadth-first > > and depth-first: > > > > > > > https://github.com/neo4j/community/blob/master/kernel/src/main/java/org/neo4j/kernel/PreorderBreadthFirstSelector.java > > > > > > > https://github.com/neo4j/community/blob/master/kernel/src/main/java/org/neo4j/kernel/PreorderDepthFirstSelector.java > > > > To achieve a custom "best first", Igor Dovgiy for example shared that he > > modeled his implementation of the breadth-first selector, except just > using > > a PriorityQueue instead of a regular Queue. > > > > My question is: is there any way to specify this sort of thing over the > > REST > > API instead of having to write a plugin? If not, does that sound like a > > reasonable feature request? > > > > I really just want something simple: nodes ordered by some "timestamp" > > property. It's killing us that we can't do this today. We might just have > > to > > look into writing this as a plugin... > > > > 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
