gremlin-orm is an ORM for graph databases in Node.js. Currently working on Neo4j and Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB with more to come in the future.
$ npm install --save @rrnara/gremlin-orm
const genericPool = require('generic-pool');
const GremlinOrm = require('gremlin-orm');
const Gremlin = require('gremlin');
const Action = require('gremlin-orm/Action');
// const g = new gremlinOrm('neo4j'); // connects to localhost:8182 by default
const dbLogger = (msg) => console.log(msg);
const dbErrorLogger = (msg) => console.error(msg);
const factory = {
create: function() {
const user = '/dbs/--TESTDB--/colls/--TESTGRAPH--';
const primaryKey = '--TEST-PRIMARY-KEY--';
const authenticator = new Gremlin.driver.auth.PlainTextSaslAuthenticator(user, primaryKey);
const options = {
authenticator,
traversalsource: 'g',
rejectUnauthorized: true,
mimeType: 'application/vnd.gremlin-v2.0+json'
};
const client = new Gremlin.driver.Client('wss://--TEST-COSMOSDB--.gremlin.cosmos.azure.com:443/', options);
client.addListener('log', dbLogger);
client.addListener('socketError', dbErrorLogger);
return client;
},
destroy: function(client) {
client.close();
}
};
const connectionPool = genericPool.createPool(factory, { min: 0, max: 10, evictionRunIntervalMillis: 120000, idleTimeoutMillis: 230000 });
connectionPool.on('factoryCreateError', dbErrorLogger);
connectionPool.on('factoryDestroyError', dbErrorLogger);
const g = new GremlinOrm(['azure', 'pk', 'test-partition'], connectionPool, true); // Can use dbLogger as parameter instead of true
const Person = g.define(
'person',
{
name: {
type: g.STRING,
required: true
},
age: {
type: g.NUMBER
}
},
{
getDetails: function(suffix) { return `${this.name} ${suffix}, Age ${this.age}`; }
}
);
Person.create(req.body, (error, result) => {
if (error) {
res.send(error);
}
else {
console.log(result.invoke('getDetails', 'Jr'));
res.send(result);
// result formatted as nice JSON Object
/*
{
"id": "1",
"label": "person",
"name": "Bob",
"age": 20
}
*/
}
});
Initialize the gremlin-orm instance with parameters matching the gremlin-javascript createClient()
initialization - with the addition of the dialect argument.
dialect
(string or Array): Required argument that takes string ('neo4j'
) or array (['azure', '<partitionName>', '<defaultPartitionValue>']
).client
: Gremlin Client
- define - alias for defineVertex
- defineVertex - define a new Vertex model
- defineEdge - define a new Edge model
- query - run a Gremlin query string on a Model
- queryRaw - perform a raw query on the gremlin-orm root and return raw data
- update - update specific props on an existing vertex or edge
- delete - delete an existing vertex or edge
- order - order the results by property and asc/desc
- limit - limit the number of results returned
- range - Array range of results returned
- invoke - Invoke methods defined along with schema
- create - create a new vertex
- find - find first vertex with matching properties
- findAll - find all vertices with matching properties
- findActionAll - find all vertices when particular action is applied on the properties
- createEdge - define a new edge relationship to another vertex(es)
- findEdge - find edges directly connected to the relevant vertex(es)
- findRelated - find all vertices connected to initial vertex(es) through a type of edge with optional properties
- findImplicit - find all vertices which have the same edge relations
in
that the current vertex(es) hasout
to another vertex
- create - create new edge relationship(s) by passing in two vertices or sets of vertices
- find - find first edge with matching properties
- findAll - find all edges with matching properties
- findVertex - find all vertices that are connected by the relevant edges
Refer to Tinkerpop documentation Only custom query option is Or - to perform Or condition queries
In order to avoid sacrificing the power of Gremlin traversals, method calls in this ORM can take advantage of method chaining. Any read-only method will avoid running its database query and instead pass its Gremlin query string to the next method in the chain if it is not given a callback. Note: All create, update, and delete methods require a callback and can not have more methods chained after.
// Only makes one call to the database
Person.find({'name': 'John'}).findRelated('knows', {'since': '2015'}, (error, result) => {
// Send people John knows to client
})
Additionally, results returned in the form of JSON objects will retain their relevant model methods for additional queries.
// Makes two calls to the database
Person.find({'name': 'John'}), (error, result) => {
let john = result;
john.findRelated('knows', {'since': '2015'}, (error, result) => {
// Send people John knows to client
})
})
This ORM utilizes Model definitions similar to Sequelize to add structure to developing servers around graph databases. Queries outside of the constraints of pre-defined models can be run using the generic .query
or .queryRaw
.
.define
is an alias for defineVertex
.defineVertex
defines a new instance of the VertexModel
class - see generic and vertex model methods
label
: Label to be used on all vertices of this modelschema
: A schema object which defines allowed property keys and allowed values/types for each keymethods
: An object which defines methods that can be called on instance of model
const Person = g.define(
'person',
{
name: {
type: g.STRING,
required: true
},
age: {
type: g.NUMBER
}
},
{
getDetails: function (suffix) { return `${this.name} ${suffix}, Age ${this.age}`; }
}
);
.defineEdge
defines a new instance of the EdgeModel
class - see generic and edge model methods
label
: Label to be used on all edges of this modelschema
: A schema object which defines allowed property keys and allowed values/types for each keymethods
: An object which defines methods that can be called on instance of model
const Knows = g.defineEdge(
'knows',
{
from: {
type: g.STRING
},
since: {
type: g.DATE
}
},
{
relationshipDetails: function () { return `Since ${this.since}`; }
}
);
The following options are available when defining model schemas:
type
: Use Sequelize-like constants to define data types. Date properties will be returned as javascript Date objects unless returning raw data. The following data type constants are currently available with possibly more in the future.g.STRING
g.NUMBER
g.DATE
g.BOOLEAN
required
(default = false): If true, will not allow saving to database if not present or empty
.query
takes a raw Gremlin query string and runs it on the object it is called on.
queryString
: Gremlin query as a stringraw
(optional, default = false): If true, will return the raw data from the graph database instead of normally formatted JSONcallback
(optional, required if raw is true): Some callback function with (error, result) arguments.
- If callback is given, returns array where 0th index is array of Vertex results and 1th index is array of Edge results (even if either is empty) -- this helps expose the correct model methods if the query returns edges from a query on a vertex or vis versa.
let query = ".as('a').out('created').as('b').in('created').as('c').dedup('a','b').select('a','b','c')"
Person.find({'name': 'John'}).query(query, true, (error, result) => {
// send raw data to client
});
.queryRaw
performs a raw query on the gremlin-orm root and returns raw data
queryString
: Gremlin query as a stringcallback
: Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
// query must be a full Gremlin query string
let query = "g.V(1).as('a').out('created').as('b').in('created').as('c').dedup('a','b').select('a','b','c')"
g.queryRaw(query, (error, result) => {
// send raw data to client
});
.update
takes a properties object and updates the relevant properties on the model instance it is called on.
props
: Object containing key value pairs of properties to updatecallback
: Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
Person.find({'name': 'John'}).update({'age', 30}, (error, result) => {
// send data to client
});
.delete
removes the object(s) it is called on from the database.
callback
: Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
Person.find({'name', 'John'}, (error, result) => {
if (result) result.delete((error, result) => {
// check if successful delete
});
});
.order
sorts the results by a property in ascending or descending order
property
: Name of property to order byorder
: Order to sort - 'ASC' or 'DESC'callback
(optional): Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
Person.findAll({'occupation': 'developer'}).order('age', 'DESC', (error, result) => {
// Return oldest developers first
});
.limit
limits the query to only the first num
objects
num
: Max number of results to returncallback
(optional): Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
Person.find({'name': 'John'}).findEdge('knows').limit(100, (error, result) => {
// Return first 100 people that John knows
});
.range
Array range of results returned
start
: Starting index of results to return (inclusive)end
: Ending index of results to return (exclusive)callback
(optional): Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
Person.find({'name': 'John'}).findEdge('knows').range(20, 40, (error, result) => {
// Return results 20-39 people that John knows
});
.invoke
takes a method name as key and invokes it with arguments provided.
methodName
: Method name as string key as defined along with schemaargs
(optional): Arguments to pass to the method
- Same return value as the method invoked
Person.create(req.body, (error, result) => {
if (error) {
res.send(error);
}
else {
console.log(result.invoke('getDetails', 'Jr')); // displays "${result.name} Jr"
}
});
.create
creates a new vertex with properties matching props object
props
: Object containing key value pairs of properties matching defined Model schemacallback
: Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
- Returns the newly created vertex object (with a unique ID) or an error object of failed schema checks
Person.create({'name': 'John', 'age': 30}, (error, result) => {
// Returns the newly created vertex
/*
{
"id": "1",
"label": "person",
"name": "John",
"age": 30
}
*/
});
.find
finds the first vertex with properties matching props object
props
: Object containing key value pairs of propertiescallback
(optional): Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
- Returns the first matching vertex as an object
Person.find({'name': 'John'}, (error, result) => {
// Returns first vertex found matching props
/*
{
"id": "1",
"label": "person",
"name": "John",
"age": 30
}
*/
});
.findAll
finds the all vertices with properties matching props object
props
: Object containing key value pairs of propertiescallback
(optional): Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
- Returns an array containing all vertices matching props as objects
Person.findAll({'age': 30}, (error, result) => {
// Returns array of matching vertices
/*
[
{
"id": "1",
"label": "person",
"name": "John",
"age": 30
},
{
"id": "2",
"label": "person",
"name": "Jane",
"age": 30
}
]
*/
});
.findActionAll
find all vertices when particular action is applied on the properties
action
: Action providing context to operation to perform over the propsprops
: Object containing key value pairs of propertiescallback
(optional): Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
- Returns an array containing all vertices matching props as objects
Person.findActionAll(Action.Or, { name: ['Abc', 'Def'], age: 75 }, (error, results) => {
if (error) {
console.error(error);
} else {
console.log(`Results: ${results.length}`);
console.log(results);
}
})
.createEdge
creates new edge relationships from starting vertex(es) to vertex(es) passed in.
edge
: Edge model. If a string label is passed, no schema check will be done - edge model is recommendedprops
: Object containing key value pairs of properties to place on new edgesvertex
: Vertex model instances or vertex model queryboth
(optional, default = false): If true, will create edges in both directionscallback
: Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
- Returns an array containing all new created edges
// Chaining vertex methods
Person.findAll({'age': 20}).createEdge(Uses, {'frequency': 'daily'}, Website.find({'name': 'Facebook'}), (error, result) => {
// Result is array of newly created edges from everyone with age 20 to the website 'Facebook'
});
// Calling .createEdge on model instances
Person.findAll({'occupation': 'web developer'}, (error, results) => {
let developers = results;
Language.findAll({'name': ['Javascript', 'HTML', 'CSS']}, (error, results) => {
let languages = results;
developers.createEdge(Uses, {}, languages, (error, result) => {
// Result is array of newly created edge objects from each web developers
// to each of the 3 important components of web development
});
});
});
// Creating edges both ways
Person.find({'name': 'Jane'}, (error, result) => {
let jane = result;
Person.find({'name' : 'John'}).createEdge(Knows, {since: '1999'}, jane, true, (error, result) => {
// Creates two edges so that John knows Jane and Jane also knows John
})
});
.findEdge
finds edges directly connected to the relevant vertex(es)
edge
: Edge model. If a string label is passed, no schema check will be done - edge model is recommendedprops
: Object containing key value pairs of properties to match on edge relationshipscallback
(optional): Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
- Returns an array containing all connected edges
Person.find({'name': 'John'}).findEdge(Knows, {'from': 'school'}, (error, result) => {
// Result is array of edge objects representing all the 'knows' relationships of John
// where John knows the person from school (edge model property)
});
.findRelated
finds vertices related through the desired edge relationship.
edge
: Edge model. If a string label is passed, no schema check will be done - edge model is recommended.props
: Object containing key value pairs of properties to match on edge relationshipsdepth
: Depth of edge traversals to makeinModel
(optional, default =this
): Vertex model of results to find. Can pass a vertex model (Person
) or label string ('person'
) -- vertex model is recommended.callback
(optional): Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
- Returns an array containing all related vertices
Person.find({'name': 'John'}).findRelated(Knows, {}, 2, (error, result) => {
// Result is array of Person records representing John's friends of friends
});
Person.find({'name': 'John'}).findRelated(Likes, {}, 1, Movie, (error, result) => {
// Result is array of Movie records that John likes.
});
.findImplicit
finds vertices that are related to another vertex the same way the original vertex is.
edge
: Edge model. If a string label is passed, no schema check will be done - edge model is recommended.props
: Object containing key value pairs of properties to match on edge relationshipscallback
(optional): Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
- Returns an array containing all related vertices
Person.find({'name': 'John'}).findImplicit('created', {}, (error, result) => {
// Result is array of vertex objects representing people who have co-created things that John created
});
.create
creates an index from out
vertex(es) to the in
vertex(es)
out
: Vertex instance(s) or find/findAll method callin
: Vertex instance(s) or find/findAll method callprops
: Object containing key value pairs of properties to add on the new edgeboth
(optional, default = false): If true, will create edges in both directionscallback
: Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
- Returns newly created edge object
Person.find({'name': 'Joe'}, (error, result) => {
let joe = result;
Knows.create(Person.find({'name': 'John'}), joe, {'since': 2015}, (error, result) => {
// Returns the newly created edge
/*
{
"id": "1",
"label": "knows",
"since": "2015",
"outV": "1", // John's id
"inV": "2", // Joe's id
}
*/
});
});
.find
finds the first edge with properties matching props object
props
: Object containing key value pairs of propertiescallback
(optional): Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
- Returns the first matching edge as an object
Knows.find({'since': 2015}, (error, result) => {
// Returns first edge found matching props
/*
{
"id": "1",
"label": "knows",
"since": 2015,
"outV": 1,
"inV": 123
}
*/
});
.findAll
finds the all edges with properties matching props object
props
: Object containing key value pairs of propertiescallback
(optional): Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
- Returns an array containing all edges matching props as objects
Knows.findAll({'since': 2015}, (error, result) => {
// Returns array of matching edges
/*
[
{
"id": "1",
"label": "knows",
"since": 2015,
"outV": 1,
"inV": 123
},
{
"id": "2",
"label": "knows",
"since": 2015,
"outV": 1,
"inV": 200
}
]
*/
});
.findVertex
finds the all vertices with properties matching props object connected by the relevant edge(s)
vertexModel
: Vertex model. If a string label is passed, no schema check will be done - vertex model is recommended.props
: Object containing key value pairs of properties to find on verticescallback
(optional): Some callback function with (error, result) arguments
- Returns an array containing all vertices connected by current edge(s)
Knows.find({'through': 'school'}).findVertex(Person, {'occupation': 'developer'}, (error, result) => {
// Result is array of people who are developers who know other people through school
});
object
: Object to check equality with
object
: Object to check inequality with
object
: Object to check less than with
object
: Object to check less than equal to with
object
: Object to check greater than with
object
: Object to check greater than equal to with
object1
: Object to check greater than withobject2
: Object to check less than with
object1
: Object to check less than withobject2
: Object to check greater than with
object1
: Object to check greater than equal to withobject2
: Object to check less than equal to with
objects
: Array to have one of the values
objects
: Array to not have the value
str
: String to start with
str
: String to end with
str
: String contained
str
: String to not start with
str
: String to not end with
str
: String to not be contained
key
: key to query over (an array field ideally)value
: An array ideally, where the key needs to contain all the provided values
props
: key/value to perform OR query over
Person with age greater than 35
Person.findAll({ age: Action.P_gt(35) }, (error, results) => {
if (error) {
console.error(error);
} else {
console.log(`Results: ${results.length}`);
console.log(results);
}
})
Person with both the tags 'Abc' and 'Def'
Person.findActionAll(Action.Has_And, { tags: ['Abc', 'Def'] }, (error, results) => {
if (error) {
console.error(error);
} else {
console.log(`Results: ${results.length}`);
console.log(results);
}
})
Person with name either 'Abc' or 'Def' or age is 75
Person.findActionAll(Action.Or, { name: ['Abc', 'Def'], age: 75 }, (error, results) => {
if (error) {
console.error(error);
} else {
console.log(`Results: ${results.length}`);
console.log(results);
}
})
This project is licensed under the MIT License