Table view output with cypher-shell

Neo4j Graph Platform
1

Hello there,

With neo4j desktop, we can see the outputs with either Table view and Text view.

I find the Table output to be much richer than Text view, since it provides information such as identity, start, end. I need those information to reconstruct the graph programmatically.

Is there a way to generate Table view output with cypher-shell?

2

You could place your query in a file and use cypher-shell to execute it and write the results to a file. By default, the output will be comma delimited. Here is the syntax I tested with, where test.cypher had my cypher and the output saved to result.txt. You can process the comma delimited file as a csv file or a plan text file.

cypher-shell -u -p -f test.cypher > result.txt

3

Thanks for the proposition @glilienfield

However, the output is still missing all the IDs for the relationships & nodes.

It is the same output as the Text view in neo4j desktop - I want the Table view instead.

Table view example of a relationship data:

{
"identity": 5017,
"start": 503,
"end": 504,
"type": "LINKED",
}

I am after the identity/start/end fields. For some reason they are not showing up in Text view format.

4

you can write the query to format the data in any manner you need. You can product that output with a query like this:

match()-[r]->()
return {id: id(r), start: id(startNode(r)), end: id(endNode(r)), type: 
type(r)} as relationship

Sample of one row from my database:

{
  "start": 1,
  "end": 2,
  "id": 206,
  "type": "REL"
}