Accessing Properties and Labels on Vertices and Edges

Setting and Getting Property Values

PGX offers the following methods for setting and getting property values in the Property class:

PgxFuture<V> getAsync(ID id)
PgxFuture<V> getAsync(K key)

Blocking variants:

V get(ID id)
V get(K key)

You can either pass in a PgxVertex/PgxEdge object or directly assign the vertex/edge identifier values and a boxed Java object with the appropriate type that contains the requested value is returned.

Another way to get vertex/edge property values is to pass vertex/edge property name to PgxVertex#getProperty/PgxEdge#getProperty methods.

Examples:

PgxGraph G = ...
VertexProperty<Integer, Boolean> vip = G.getVertexProperty("vip");
EdgeProperty<Float> cost = G.getEdgeProperty("cost");

PgxVertex<Integer> vertex = G.getVertex(801);
PgxEdge edge = G.getEdge(5692L);

boolean isVip = vip.get(vertex);
float costValue = cost.get(edge);

// shortcuts
boolean isVip = vip.get(801);
float costValue = cost.get(5692L);

// from PgxVertex and PgxEdge
boolean isVip = vertex.get("vip")
float costValue = edge.getProperty("cost")

Similarly, the client can set the value of properties by applying one of the following methods in Property:

PgxFuture<Void> setAsync(K key, V value)
PgxFuture<Void> setValuesAsync(Map<K, V> values)
PgxFuture<Void> setValuesAsync(Map<K, V> values, V defaultValue)

Blocking variants are

void set(K key, V value)
void setValues(Map<K, V> values)
void setValues(Map<K, V> values, V defaultValue)

Property values may be set in a number of ways. A single property value can be set directly (first method), or the property values for several vertices and edges can be set all at once. values are the key-value pairs (i.e. a Map), for which the key is the PgxVertex (or PgxEdge) and the value is the property value that should be set for this vertex (or edge).

If a defaultValue is given, it will be assigned to all the vertices (or edges) which are not specified in the given values map. This is conceptually equivalent to first using the fill() method with the given defaultValue and then applying the setValues(values) method.

Using the following fill() method, the client can set the same value for a property in every vertex or edge of the graph:

PgxFuture<Void> fillAsync(V value)
void fill(V value) // blocking equivalent

You can set a single property value through the following method of PgxVertex and PgxEdge

<V> PgxFuture<Void> setPropertyAsync(String, V)

and its blocking variants

<V> void setProperty(String, V)

Ordered Iteration over the Values of a Property

To iterate the values of a property, the client can invoke the following methods in the Property class:

PgxFuture<Iterable<Map.Entry<K, V>>> getValuesAsync()
PgxFuture<Iterable<Map.Entry<K, V>>> getTopKValuesAsync(int k)
PgxFuture<Iterable<Map.Entry<K, V>>> getBottomKValuesAsync(int k)

Blocking equivalents:

Iterable<Map.Entry<K, V>> getValues()
Iterable<Map.Entry<K, V>> getTopKValues(int k)
Iterable<Map.Entry<K, V>> getBottomKValues(int k)

The method getValuesAsync (or getValues) returns an iterator of key-value pairs; the key is the unique PgxVertex and the value is the value of this property for that vertex or edge. The iteration does not necessarily follow a specific order.

The next two methods (getTopKValue and getBottomKValues) return similar iterators. However, these iterators are ordered by the value of this property, in descending or ascending order up to K elements.

Getting Label Values

PGX provides VertexLabels and EdgeLabel for multiple labels on a vertex and a single label on an edge. The property graph model that PGX support defines such label concepts.

Similar to the property access, to access vertex labels, PGX offers the following methods of VertexLabels:

PgxFuture<Set<String>> getAsync(ID id)
PgxFuture<Set<String>> getAsync(K key)

Blocking variants:

V get(ID id)
V get(K key)

To access an edge label, PGX offers the following methods of EdgeLabel:

PgxFuture<String> getAsync(ID id)
PgxFuture<String> getAsync(K key)

Blocking variants:

String get(ID id)
String get(K key)

Another way to get vertex/edge labels is to directly call PgxVertex#getLabels/PgxEdge#getLabel methods.

Examples:

PgxGraph G = ...
VertexLabels<Integer> vertexLabels = G.getVertexLabels();
EdgeLabel edgeLabel = G.getEdgeLabel();

PgxVertex<Integer> vertex = G.getVertex(801);
PgxEdge edge = G.getEdge(5692L);

Set<String> vLabels = vertexLabels.get(vertex);
String eLabel = edgeLabel.get(edge);

// shortcuts
Set<String> vLabels = vertexLabels.get(801);
String eLabel = edgeLabel.get(5692L);

// from PgxVertex and PgxEdge
Set<String> vLabels = vertex.getLabels()
String eLabel = edge.getLabel()

Accessing Properties and Labels on Vertices and Edges

Setting and Getting Property Values

Ordered Iteration over the Values of a Property

Getting Label Values

See Also