How to get only Node object using Spring Neo4j instead of populating it's relationship lists

[alexander.gehre]

You can write in your Repo something like that:

@Query("MATCH (n) WHERE n.NodeID= $nodeID RETURN n {.*}")
    Optional<T> findOnlyNode(String nodeID);

So, you would just get all "basic" Data of your node mapped to your object by Spring Data.

If that is not enough, there are also possibilities to include "some" needed related objects.
E.g. see my examle here:

Hello from Dresden, Germany

Hi, let me give you a simplified example in order to explain, how we boost up the Neo4j performance and avoided Stackoverflow errors on our Java backend with simple to use Spring Data Neo4j standard functionality. Think of a standard use case for a Rest backend: GET on a Users endpoint to get all registered users including necessary (sub-)data in the User objects with one single Rest call to display the Users on a Web backend. Let me start with a simplified demo model for User objects: @Node…