hsc-coop wrote:
> Thanks for all the input, the problem that I have is not nodes in the
> same network but rather in different networks. For example I have a
> gene in 2 networks, in one I want it to be a primary node and in
> another a secondary node. If I want to use vizmapper to color the node
> according to whether is is primary or secondary it must be mapped to an
> attribute. But this value must be different for the gene in the 2
> networks since it is primary in one and secondary in the other. This
> was solved by giving a unique identifier and changing the canonicalName
> which I believe is what the label is mapped to currently.

> Now, I have come across a similar problem. My program creates a network
> based on an existing network created from a file, so I append the
> existing network to my new empty one. The problem is that if I do this
> for another network, it is possible that this network may have nodes
> with the same name as the first one generated. Therefore if the second
> generated network contains a node with the same name then they are
> technically the same node even though they should not be.

> So far I have mostly worked with the NodeViews so the problems have not
> been apparent(since a node can have different NodeViews in different
> networks).
> However, now I need to create edges in these generated networks. The
> problem I have is when I change an edge attribute of nodes that are in
> both networks,  the edge attribute will be shared in both. That is, the
> value set last will be shared.

> I tried using:
> getCyEdge(String source_alias, String edge_name, String target_alias,
> String interaction_type)
> with a unique edge_name but it still gets the same edge if the source
> and target are the same.

> Any ideas for getting around this? I was thinking I would need to
> iterate through the nodes/edges in my original networks and then create
> nodes with unqiue names that have the same attributes and graph index.