I guess I was hoping it(size/count) was cached in the database or the underlaying database would provide this somehow, ie. in berkeleydb (java edition) there's a cursor.count() I could use (though I don't know how they did it implementation-wise)
Thanks! I needed to know that. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Jim Webber <j...@neotechnology.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Responses from calling the Neo4j APIs are typically lazy, for performance > reasons. So there's no way of eagerly counting the number of relationships > unless you force eager evaluation as you've suggested below. > > Jim > > On 20 Jul 2011, at 11:13, cyuczi eekc wrote: > > > Is there a way to get the number of relationships without having to > iterate > > through (and count++) them? > > ie. rels=firstNode.getRelationships(); > > rels.size(); //doesn't actually exist > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
