Movies Mvc Core

An example ASP NET MVC Core project to access Neo4j using the official and community drivers.

This is a work in progress and will be updated when it can be.

How do you use this?

You need a few things to get the example running:

1. Neo4j Server 5.x - easiest way is with Neo4j Desktop, just create a new 5.x version (any will work)
2. Movies DataSet - Once you have (1) you need to get the Movies dataset, to do that:
   1. Start Neo4j
   2. Open the browser here
   3. Run :play movies
   4. Skip the first page, and play the script on page 2.

Now you're ready!

Controllers

There are 3 controllers to show the different approaches to coding .NET against a Neo4j Database.

MovieDriverController (api/driver/movie)

This is the controller using a pure implementation of the Neo4j.Driver with no extensions.

MovieExtensionController (api/driverextensions/movie)

The controller using Neo4j.Driver.Extensions to reduce boiler plate code.

MoviesNeo4jClientController (api/neo4jclient/movie)

The controller using Neo4jClient - the community driver.

Example Calls

Just some example calls for you to use against the API.

List (list)

This gets all the Movies in the database

• /<controller-specific-api>/list

Title (title/<title>)

This gets a specific Movie, provided by the <title> parameter:

• /<controller-specific-api>/title/The%20Matrix

Actors (actors)

This gets all the actors by Movie (i.e. Title + List of Actors)

• /<controller-specific-api>/actors

Actors (actors/<title>)

This gets all the actors by for a specific Movie

• /<controller-specific-api>/actors/The%20Matrix