enum as node property

[Abdul Azeez Shaik]

Dear all,

If i have to add enum as property to nodes, only way i could think of is, adding new node(for enum type) and create relationship between these two nodes.

Is there any other way of doing it? As per the documentation, i could see that only primitive types are allowed as properties.

Kindly let me know your suggestions for the above use case

Thanks,

 Abdul

[Michael Hunger]

I think it depends on your use cases,

your suggestion is a good one if it supports your query use-cases.

Otherwise just storing enum.name() is also a valid approach.

Michael

[Abdul Azeez Shaik]

Thanks for the prompt response Michael. You options suits best for my use case.

Thanks again,

Abdul

[Abdul Azeez Shaik]

Am using spring data neo4j and using the following code to serialize the string to enum and enum to string. Is there any other standard approach to do this. Am using simple mapping.

enum producttype{

 ENTERPRIZE,

CONSUMER

}

String productty;

set productty(producttype temp) {

        product = temp.name()

}

Kindly let me know if there is any other simple way.

[Michael Hunger]

Oh,

in SDN enums are supported out of the box, see:

http://static.springsource.org/spring-data/data-graph/snapshot-site/reference/html/#d0e1690

Michael

[Abdul Azeez Shaik]

Spring-data supports enum and data properties.

Does it support indexing on enum and data properties? I couldn't find out anything on this in documentation.

[Michael Hunger]

Right now they are indexed via the current mechanism of neo4j-indexing which calls toString() on the values (which is currently the same for enums).

But this should probably change to index the same values that are stored in the properties. Can you please raise an issue about this at http://spring.neo4j.org/issues

Thanks

Michael