Is there any way when using the REST API to get the summary of operations
that have completed without returning the nodes.

When using the web admin console after doing an operation I get a summary
like

1 node inserted
2 relationships inserted
1 node deleted.

In the examples here :
http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/milestone/rest-api-cypher.html I notice there
is no example of summary information sent back to the client. I would have
to return thie nodes inserted to know the insert had occurred.

When doing a request over the network often it is a good idea to minimize
the data response size. A quick summary would help with this.

Any ideas?