I have overcome the problem of avoiding the creation of duplicate nodes on my DB with the use of merge_one functions which works like that:
t=graph.merge_one("User","ID","someID")
which creates the node with unique ID. My problem is that I can't find a way to add multiple attributes/properties to my node along with the ID which is added automatically (date for example).
I have managed to achieve this the old "duplicate" way but it doesn't work now since merge_one can't accept more arguments! Any ideas???
Graph.merge_one
only allows you to specify one key-value pair because it's meant to be used with a uniqueness constraint on a node label and property. Is there anything wrong with finding the node by its unique id with merge_one
and then setting the properties?
t = graph.merge_one("User", "ID", "someID")
t['name'] = 'Nicole'
t['age'] = 23
t.push()
I know I am a bit late... but still useful I think
Using py2neo==2.0.7 and the docs (about Node.properties
):
... and the latter is an instance of PropertySet which extends dict.
So the following worked for me:
m = graph.merge_one("Model", "mid", MID_SR)
m.properties.update({
'vendor':"XX",
'model':"XYZ",
'software':"OS",
'modelVersion':"",
'hardware':"",
'softwareVesion':"12.06"
})
graph.push(m)
This hacky function will iterate through the properties and values and labels gradually eliminating all nodes that don't match each criteria submitted. The final result will be a list of all (if any) nodes that match all the properties and labels supplied.
def find_multiProp(graph, *labels, **properties):
results = None
for l in labels:
for k,v in properties.iteritems():
if results == None:
genNodes = lambda l,k,v: graph.find(l, property_key=k, property_value=v)
results = [r for r in genNodes(l,k,v)]
continue
prevResults = results
results = [n for n in genNodes(l,k,v) if n in prevResults]
return results
The final result can be used to assess uniqueness and (if empty) create a new node, by combining the two functions together...
def merge_one_multiProp(graph, *labels, **properties):
r = find_multiProp(graph, *labels, **properties)
if not r:
# remove tuple association
node,= graph.create(Node(*labels, **properties))
else:
node = r[0]
return node
example...
from py2neo import Node, Graph
graph = Graph()
properties = {'p1':'v1', 'p2':'v2'}
labels = ('label1', 'label2')
graph.create(Node(*labels, **properties))
for l in labels:
graph.create(Node(l, **properties))
graph.create(Node(*labels, p1='v1'))
node = merge_one_multiProp(graph, *labels, **properties)