Divergence on results of apoc.path.expandConfig

Neo4j Graph Platform Procedures & APOC
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Hi,

Looking at apoc.path.expandConfig documentation a can see a divergence between what is documented and what actually happens.

In a toy example of 4.2 documentation (https://neo4j.com/labs/apoc/4.2/graph-querying/expand-paths-config/, the resulting paths are in the following format:

(:Person:Engineering {name: "Praveena"})←[:KNOWS]-(:Person:Engineering {name: "Zhen"})-[:KNOWS]→(:Person:Field {name: "Stefan"})

However, if I run the very same toy example in the latest version of Neo4j, the resulting paths are like this:

[{"name":"Praveena"},{},{"name":"Zhen"},{"name":"Zhen"},{},{"name":"St│
│efan"}]

That is, the documentation says that the returned paths include node labels, relationships, and properties, when, in fact, the procedure returns just the nodes' properties.

Am I doing something wrong?

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Data-wise, the actual return values should be the same.

I think what you're seeing is the difference in how that is displayed via the Neo4j Browser, which is a whole different thing.

Also the format used on that page, while describing the same thing, was adjusted for clarity, not for alignment with the output of the Neo4j Browser.

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You are correct. That's the case.