Graph formatted results from HTTP API contain multiple graph objects instead of one

[kyle_krcmaric]

I'm running into an issue where I am querying my database and asking Neo4j to return the results in graph format so that I can use D3 or some derivative of it to render my graph result in a web application.

First, I'll add the data:

CREATE ( bike:Bike { weight: 10 } ) CREATE ( frontWheel:Wheel { spokes: 3 } ) CREATE ( backWheel:Wheel { spokes: 32 } ) CREATE p1 = (bike)-[:HAS { position: 1 } ]->(frontWheel) CREATE p2 = (bike)-[:HAS { position: 2 } ]->(backWheel) RETURN bike, p1, p2

Then, in Neo4j Browser (via Neo4j Desktop), if I run this Cypher statement:

MATCH (a) RETURN a;

The graph view of the result contains multiple nodes connected to one another via multiple relationships. Like this:

However, when performing the same query using the HTTP API, instead of receiving a single graph object with the same nodes and relationships that I saw in the Neo4j Browser, I instead get multiple, separate graph objects, each with only one node in it, and therefore, over the entire HTTP response, there are no relationships returned. If I rendered this, I would not have the necessary relationship information to render the result like Neo4j Browser does, and I'd be left with this:

It seems as though the Neo4j Browser is adding in relationships that exist for rendering the graph which are relationships that are not returned by the HTTP API. How can I recreate the graph result rendering done by Neo4j Browser in my web app?

What I expect:

{
    "results": [
        {
            "columns": [
                "a"
            ],
            "data": [
                {
                    "graph": {
                        "nodes": [
                            {...
                            },
                            {...
                            },
                            {...
                            }
                        ],
                        "relationships": [
                            {...
                            },
                            {...
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    ]

What I get:

{
    "results": [
        {
            "columns": [
                "a"
            ],
            "data": [
                {
                    "graph": {
                        "nodes": [
                            {...
                            }
                        ],
                        "relationships": []
                    }
                },
                {
                    "graph": {
                        "nodes": [
                            {...
                            }
                        ],
                        "relationships": []
                    }
                },
                {
                    "graph": {
                        "nodes": [
                            {...
                            }
                        ],
                        "relationships": []
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    ]

[michael_hunger]

Yes neo4j browser runs an additional query that is enabled/disabled with the "connect result nodes" setting, which is basically

MATCH (a)-[r]->(b) WHERRE id(a) in $ids and id(b) IN $ids RETURN r

To fetch the relationships after the fact.