I have a query that I ran in the neo4j web browser:
MATCH p=(z)<-[*]-(a)-[:foo]->(b) WHERE b.value = "bar" return p
This returned a large number of connected nodes. Something happened that seems to have deleted all of these nodes (in a separate incident), but I still have the output of the old query. The code section of the browser has the response data listed:
...
"graph": {
"nodes": [
{
"id": "1148578",
"labels": [
"text"
],
"properties": {
"value": "bar",
"timestamp": 1478747946867
}
},
...
Is there a way for me to recreate all of this data from the output of an old query?
You could use apoc.load.json
to do this. Note that this solution will not preserve the internal node ids. APOC is a procedure library that extends built-in Neo4j functionality.
Given the JSON file
{"graph": {
"nodes": [
{
"id": "32496",
"labels": [
"Person"
],
"properties": {
"born": 1967,
"name": "Carrie-Anne Moss"
}
},
{
"id": "32505",
"labels": [
"Movie"
],
"properties": {
"tagline": "Evil has its winning ways",
"title": "The Devil's Advocate",
"released": 1997
}
},
{
"id": "32494",
"labels": [
"Movie"
],
"properties": {
"tagline": "Welcome to the Real World",
"title": "The Matrix",
"released": 1999
}
},
{
"id": "32495",
"labels": [
"Person"
],
"properties": {
"born": 1964,
"name": "Keanu Reeves"
}
}
],
"relationships": [
{
"id": "83204",
"type": "ACTED_IN",
"startNode": "32495",
"endNode": "32505",
"properties": {
"role": "Kevin Lomax"
}
},
{
"id": "83183",
"type": "ACTED_IN",
"startNode": "32496",
"endNode": "32494",
"properties": {
"role": "Trinity"
}
},
{
"id": "83182",
"type": "ACTED_IN",
"startNode": "32495",
"endNode": "32494",
"properties": {
"role": "Neo"
}
}
]
}
}
}
We can recreate the graph using this query:
CALL apoc.load.json("https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67572426/small_movie_graph.json") YIELD value AS row
WITH row, row.graph.nodes AS nodes
UNWIND nodes AS node
CALL apoc.create.node(node.labels, node.properties) YIELD node AS n
SET n.id = node.id
WITH row
UNWIND row.graph.relationships AS rel
MATCH (a) WHERE a.id = rel.startNode
MATCH (b) WHERE b.id = rel.endNode
CALL apoc.create.relationship(a, rel.type, rel.properties, b) YIELD rel AS r
RETURN *