how to reduce amount of data in neo4j query? - api

Question

when requesting data over Neo4j, as in, say,
curl -i -XPOST -d'{ "query" : "start n=node(*) return n" }'
-H "accept:application/json;stream=true"
-H content-type:application/json
http://localhost:7474/db/data/cypher
i get, as documented, a response like this:
{
"columns" : [ "n" ],
"data" : [ [ {
"outgoing_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/0/relationships/out",
"data" : {
},
"traverse" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/0/traverse/{returnType}",
"all_typed_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/0/relationships/all/{-list|&|types}",
"property" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/0/properties/{key}",
"self" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/0",
"properties" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/0/properties",
"outgoing_typed_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/0/relationships/out/{-list|&|types}",
"incoming_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/0/relationships/in",
"extensions" : {
},
"create_relationship" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/0/relationships",
"paged_traverse" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/0/paged/traverse/{returnType}{?pageSize,leaseTime}",
"all_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/0/relationships/all",
"incoming_typed_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/0/relationships/in/{-list|&|types}"
} ], [ {
"outgoing_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/1/relationships/out",
"data" : {
"glyph" : "一",
"~isa" : "glyph"
},
"traverse" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/1/traverse/{returnType}",
"all_typed_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/1/relationships/all/{-list|&|types}",
"property" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/1/properties/{key}",
"self" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/1",
"properties" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/1/properties",
"outgoing_typed_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/1/relationships/out/{-list|&|types}",
"incoming_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/1/relationships/in",
"extensions" : {
},
"create_relationship" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/1/relationships",
"paged_traverse" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/1/paged/traverse/{returnType}{?pageSize,leaseTime}",
"all_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/1/relationships/all",
"incoming_typed_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/1/relationships/in/{-list|&|types}"
} ], [ {
"outgoing_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/2/relationships/out",
"data" : {
"~isa" : "LPG",
"LPG" : "1"
},
"traverse" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/2/traverse/{returnType}",
"all_typed_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/2/relationships/all/{-list|&|types}",
"property" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/2/properties/{key}",
"self" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/2",
"properties" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/2/properties",
"outgoing_typed_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/2/relationships/out/{-list|&|types}",
"incoming_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/2/relationships/in",
"extensions" : {
},
"create_relationship" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/2/relationships",
"paged_traverse" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/2/paged/traverse/{returnType}{?pageSize,leaseTime}",
"all_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/2/relationships/all",
"incoming_typed_relationships" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/2/relationships/in/{-list|&|types}"
} ], [ {
and so on and on. the URLs delivered with each node are certainly well meant, but they also occupy a major portion of the data transmitted. they're also highly redundant and not what i', after with my query. is there any way to drop all of that traverse,
all_typed_relationships,
property,
self,
properties,
outgoing_typed_relationships,
incoming_relationships,
extensions,
create_relationship,
paged_traverse,
all_relationships,
incoming_typed_relationships
jazz?

Answer 1

The only way is to specify the properties you want returned in the return statement. Like:
return id(n), n.glyph;