Yes, configuration and indexing via REST is the next step for this. Cheers,
/peter neubauer GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://startupbootcamp.org/ - Öresund - Innovation happens HERE. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Aseem Kishore <aseem.kish...@gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome to hear, and great work! Will we be able to configure+use this from > the REST API? > > Cheers, > Aseem > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Chris Gioran < > chris.gio...@neotechnology.com> wrote: > >> Good news everyone, >> >> A request that's often come up on the mailing list is a mechanism for >> automatically indexing properties of nodes and relationships. >> >> As of today's SNAPSHOT, auto-indexing is part of Neo4j which means nodes >> and relationships can now be indexed based on convention, requiring >> far less effort and code from the developer's point of view. >> >> Getting hold of an automatic index is straightforward: >> >> AutoIndexer<Node> nodeAutoIndexer = graphDb.index().getNodeAutoIndexer(); >> AutoIndex<Node> nodeAutoIndex = nodeAutoIndexer.getAutoIndex(); >> >> Once you've got an instance of AutoIndex, you can use it as a read-only >> Index<Node>. >> >> The AutoIndexer interface also supports runtime changes and >> enabling/disabling the auto indexing functionality. >> >> To support the new features, there are new Config >> options you can pass to the startup configuration map in >> EmbeddedGraphDatabase, the most important of which are: >> >> Config.NODE_AUTO_INDEXING (defaults to "false") >> Config.RELATIONSHIP_AUTO_INDEXING (defaults to "false") >> >> If set to "true" (independently of each other) these properties will >> enable auto indexing functionality and at the successful finish() of >> each transaction, all newly added properties on the primitives for which >> auto indexing is enabled will be added to a special AutoIndex (and >> deleted or changed properties will be updated accordingly too). >> >> There are options for fine grained control to determine >> properties are indexed, default behaviors and so forth. For example, by >> default all properties are indexed. If you want only properties "name" and >> "age" for Nodes and "since" and "until" for Relationships >> to be auto indexed, simply set the initial configuration as follows: >> >> Config.NODE_KEYS_INDEXABLE = "name, age"; >> Config.RELATIONSHIP_KEYS_INDEXABLE="since, until"; >> >> For the semantics of the auto-indexing operations, constraints and more >> detailed examples, see the documentation available at >> >> http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/1.4-SNAPSHOT/auto-indexing.html >> >> We're pretty excited about this feature since we think it'll make your >> lives >> as developers much more productive in a range of use-cases. If you're >> comfortable with using SNAPSHOT versions of Neo4j, please try it out >> and let us know what you think - we'd really value your feedback. >> >> If you're happier with using packaged milestones then this feature >> will be available from 1.4 M05 in a couple of weeks from now. >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo4j mailing list >> User@lists.neo4j.org >> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
