Trying to understand the API

[Corey Subnet]

Hi all, 

I'm fairly new to programming so forgive me if I ask an overly simplistic question, but I have no idea how to read the API documentation.

I was trying to put together a little server app that finds the shortest path between two nodes. I POST the data to the function "shortestpath" and it eventually filters through to a jade view. However, the string that is finally passed onto jade looks like [object Object]. When I JSON.stringify it, it ends up looking like:

 [{"_start":{"_nodeNeo4j":{"version":"1.1.0","constructor":"Node"},"_data":{"self":"http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/7056"}},"_nodes":

et cetera.

I noticed from the API that the path class uses a few properties like length and start. These would be very helpful to me if I were able to fetch them. "(node) start" does not really help me do that.

Here is my code:

var neo4j = require('neo4j');

var db = new neo4j.GraphDatabase('http://localhost:7474');

function resultants(neoPath, res){

res.render("results",{path: neoPath});

console.log("logging the path: ");

console.log(neoPath);

res.end('end');

}

function talkToNeo (nodeone, nodetwo, res) {

var params = {

};

var query = [

    'MATCH (a {xml_id:"'+ nodeone +'"}),(b {xml_id:"' + nodetwo + '"}),',

    'p = shortestPath((a)-[*..15]-(b))',

    'RETURN (p)' 

   ].join('\n');

console.log(query);

db.query(query, params, function (err, results) {

if (err) throw err;

var neoPath = results.map(function (result){

return result['p'];

});

console.log("this is the value of neoPath");

console.log(neoPath);

resultants(neoPath, res);

});

};

exports.shortestpath= function (req, res) {

console.log("exports at shortestpath called");

if (req.method == 'POST'){

console.log("if statement worked");

var nodeone = req.body.nodeone;

var nodetwo = req.body.nodetwo;

console.log(nodeone);

talkToNeo(nodeone, nodetwo, res);

};

};