Before Cypher came along, if you wanted to describe a graph traversal in Neo4j you would use the Traversal Framework Java API. The Traversal API is one of the many hidden gems of Neo4j and today we are going to take a closer look at it. Traversing a graph is about going on a journey. All journeys have a starting point (or points) so that’s the first thing we have to do, figure out where in the graph we begin. It can be a single node, or multiple ones, but they will go on the journey following the same rules, so its easier if it’s just one node or nodes of the same “type”.
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Max De Marzi 