BoltSips

Neo4j driver for Elixir wrapped around the Bolt protocol.

Documentation: http://hexdocs.pm/bolt_sips/

Disclaimer

Bolt.Sips is currently on 0.x beta releases but it is heading towards a stable release. Please check the issues tracker for more information and outstanding issues.

Features

• It is using: Bolt. Neo4j's newest network protocol, designed for high-performance
• Supports transactions, simple and complex Cypher queries with or w/o parameters
• Connection pool implementation using: "A hunky Erlang worker pool factory", aka: Poolboy :)
• Supports Neo4j 3.0.x

Installation

Available in Hex, the package can be installed as:

1. Add bolt_sips to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [{:bolt_sips, "~> 0.1"}]
end

2. Ensure bolt_sips is started before your application:

def application do
  [applications: [:bolt_sips]]
end

Usage

Edit your config/config.exs and set Bolt connection, for example:

config :bolt_sips, Bolt,
  hostname: 'localhost',
  # basic_auth: [username: "neo4j", password: "*********"],
  port: 7687,
  pool_size: 5,
  max_overflow: 1

Please observe this issue: #7773 if your server requires basic authentication and have issues changing the username

With a minimalist setup configured as above, and a Neo4j 3.x server running, you can connect to the server and run some queries using Elixir’s interactive shell (IEx):

iex> conn = Bolt.Sips.conn
iex> Bolt.Sips.query!(conn, "CREATE (a:Person {name:'Bob'})")
%{stats: %{"labels-added" => 1, "nodes-created" => 1, "properties-set" => 1}, type: "w"}

iex> Bolt.Sips.query!(conn, "MATCH (a:Person {name: 'Bob'}) RETURN a.name AS name") |> Enum.map(&(&1["name"]))

["Bob"]

iex> Bolt.Sips.query!(conn, "MATCH (a:Person {name:'Bob'}) DELETE a")
%{stats: %{"nodes-deleted" => 1}, type: "w"}

Command line

You can also run Cypher commands from a mix task:

mix bolt.cypher "MATCH (people:Person) RETURN people.name LIMIT 5"

Output sample:

"MATCH (people:Person) RETURN people.name as name LIMIT 5"

[%{"name" => "Keanu Reeves"}, %{"name" => "Carrie-Anne Moss"},
 %{"name" => "Andy Wachowski"}, %{"name" => "Lana Wachowski"},
 %{"name" => "Joel Silver"}]

Available command line options:

• --host, -h - server host
• --port, -P - server port
• --username, -u - the user name (optional)
• --password, -p - password

Testing

Tests run against a running instance of Neo4J. Please verify that you do not store critical data on this server!

If you have docker available on your system, you can start an instance before running the test suite:

docker run --rm -p 7687:7687 -e 'NEO4J_AUTH=none' neo4j:3.0.6

mix test

Special thanks

• Michael Schaefermeyer (@mschae), for implementing the Bolt protocol in Elixir.

Bolt.Sips incorporates the Bolt protocol code originally created at mschae/boltex, for the low level communication with the Neo4j server.

Contributors

As reported by Github: contributions to master, excluding merge commits

Contributing

• Fork it
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
• Test (mix test)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
• Create new Pull Request

Author

Florin T.PATRASCU (Github: @florinpatrascu, Twitter: @florin)

License

Copyright 2016 Florin T. PATRASCU

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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