I have just started experimenting with Neo4J/Java and expect this is an easy one I'm missing, and probably phrasing my queries wrong.
I have some model classes as follows:
@Node
public class Garment {
@Id
@GeneratedValue
private Long id;
private String name;
@Relationship(type = "DESIGNED_BY")
private Entity designer;
// Other properties getters/setters removed for readibility
public Entity getDesigner() {
return designer;
}
public void setDesigner(Entity designer) {
this.designer = designer;
}
}
public abstract class Entity {
@Id
@GeneratedValue
Long id;
private String name;
public Long getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(Long id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
}
@Node
public class Person extends Entity {
}
@Node
public class Company extends Entity {
}
And a corresponding repository
public interface Garment extends Neo4jRepository<Garment, Long> {
Garment findByName(String name);
}
I have no problem inserting, using repository.save(), this correctly adds everything; nodes, relationships. Fine. It gives Designers of type Person labels of Person, and Designers of type Company the label Company.
However, when I do a find, e.g. findByName(), findAll(). it is not matching the designer and just saying designer is null, according to the cipher being executed/logged it looks like it's trying to build a relationship there with nodes with an Entity label, which there are none.
How can I get my repository to return Garments with designers of Person and Companys. I expect this is going to be as simple as an annotation, in order to fix.
(Note I've tried adding a @Node on the entity type with Person and Company as labels, however it just results in every node being added as both a Person and a Company).