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nodeRelationTypes

Associated relationship types for Neo4j database node

Description

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nodereltypes = nodeRelationTypes(node,direction) returns the relationship types for the specified Neo4jNode object and direction.

Examples

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Create a Neo4j® database connection using the URL http://localhost:7474/db/data, user name neo4j, and password matlab.

url = 'http://localhost:7474/db/data';
username = 'neo4j';
password = 'matlab';

neo4jconn = neo4j(url,username,password);

Check the Message property of the Neo4j connection object neo4jconn. The blank Message property indicates a successful connection.

neo4jconn.Message
ans =

     []

Search the database for the node with node identifier 2 using the Neo4j database connection neo4jconn.

nodeid = 2;

node = searchNodeByID(neo4jconn,nodeid);

Search for all incoming relationships for the node. nodereltypes returns a list of the relationship types.

nodereltypes = nodeRelationTypes(node,'in')
nodereltypes = 1×1 cell array
    {'knows'}

Close the database connection.

close(neo4jconn)

Input Arguments

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Neo4j database node, specified as a Neo4jNode object created using searchNode or searchNodeByID.

Relationship direction, specified as either 'in' for an incoming relationship or 'out' for an outgoing relationship. The relationships are associated with the specified origin node.

Output Arguments

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Relationship types, returned as a cell array of character vectors. The cell array contains one character vector for one relationship or multiple character vectors for multiple relationships.

Version History

Introduced in R2016b