Is is possible to use the value of a node property as a variable name for a relationship property?

[TK36]

I am trying to use the value of a node property as a variable name for a relationship property, and I haven't found any way to do it so far. Here is an example:

Let's say I have some node labels including:

(p:Person {id: #, name: "some name"})

(c:Currency {id: #, name: "currency symbol"})

(t:Transaction {id: #, amount: #} 

In this case, the transaction is not linked to the currency, but ignore this for now. I want to create a relationship to show that some person transacted with another.

Assumptions:

1. c.name can be one of many currencies [USD, EUR, GBP, ... etc]

2. If person A sends multiple currencies to person B, then each currency will have its own transaction.

Now if p1 sent some amounts of USD and EUR to p2, I want to create a relationship as follows:

(p1:Person)-[TRANSACTED_WITH {USD: some amount, EUR: some amount}]->(p2:Person)

So I want the relationship to have the symbol name of a sent currency as the property name and the amount as the value of that property. There can be one or multiple currencies sent from A to B.  So each relationship between two persons can have a different set of properties.

I tried the following, but it didn't work:

MERGE (p1:Person)-[TRANSACTED_WITH {c1["name"]: t1.amount}]->(p2:Person)

Is there actually any way to do that?

[glilienfield]

Property names must be literal values. You can try using apoc doIt procedure, as it will let you execution a cypher statement passed as a string.  As such, you can create your cypher string with the relationship's property name substituted with the value you need.

https://neo4j.com/labs/apoc/4.2/overview/apoc.cypher/apoc.cypher.doIt/

[bennu_neo]

Hi @TK36 !

As @glilienfield said, there're several APOC procedures that may help you with this. An example of this can be:

MATCH(p1:Person { id : $id1}), (t1:Transaction { id : $id2}), (c1:Currency {id : $id3}), (p2:Person { id : $id4})
with *
CALL apoc.create.relationship(p1, 'TRANSACTION',
apoc.map.fromValues([
    c1.name, t1.amount
]), p2) 
YIELD rel
RETURN rel;