Re: [Neo4j] Cypher Creation of Node and Json Stringify Double Quote Property Issue

[Michael Hunger]

That's correct. Cypher syntax is not JSON !

If you want to pass in maps, please use parameters, please use parameters anyway ! Otherwise you will generate queries that cypher cannot cache and has to re-parse everytime.

Michael

> {"query" : "CREATE (N {params});", "params" : {firstName: 'John', lastName: 'Doe'}}


Am 11.12.2012 um 19:45 schrieb acg:

> Standard convention is that property names and values are wrapped in double quotes, which Json.Stringify outputs:
>
> {"firstName":"John","lastName":"Doe"}
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> But the cypher syntax rely's on the absence of double quotes (at least on the property names):
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> {"query" : "CREATE (N{firstName: 'John', lastName: 'Doe'});"}
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> Sorry if this concern has been answered before, any good recommendations on handling the matter?
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> Thanks in advance!
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[acg]

Thanks Michael, wish it wasn't the case and thanks for the advice on the parameters.  I like the unstructured nature of the storage, wish it would allow my dynamic types to be simply passed as json without hard codes.