Node-Neo4j Bacon calculator

This is a bacon calculator app using actors and movies as nodes. It uses the node-neo4j library, available on npm as neo4j and Node.js.

The app is a simple social network manager: it lets you add and remove actors, movies and "Acts" relationships between them.

This app supports deploying to DCC server system, and a demo is in fact running live at http://arqui3.ing.puc.cl/.

Installation

# Install the required dependencies
npm install

# Install a local Neo4j instance
curl http://dist.neo4j.org/neo4j-community-1.8.2-unix.tar.gz --O neo4j-community-1.8.2-unix.tar.gz
tar -zxvf neo4j-community-1.8.2-unix.tar.gz
rm neo4j-community-1.8.2-unix.tar.gz
ln -s neo4j-community-1.8.2/bin/neo4j neo4j

#jQuery (case sensitive)
npm install jQuery
npm install jquery

Usage

# Start the local Neo4j instance
./neo4j start

# Run the app!
node app

The app will now be accessible at http://localhost:3000/.

The UI is admittedly quite crappy, but hopefully it shows the functionality. This will be working only by API (TODO)

API V0.1

Bacon by id

#Post to /api/0.1/actors/:id/bacon
:id => initial actor

#content
actor[id] => target actor

Bacon by name

#Post to /api/0.1/actors/bacon

#content by name
actor[initial_name] => intial search actor
actor[end_name] => target actor

#content by provider id
actor[initial_id] => intial search actor
actor[end_id] => target actor

#Example in Python (By Augusto)
import requests
body = {'actor[initial_name]': 'Kevin Bacon', 'actor[end_name]': 'test2'}
r = requests.post("**Replace with server url**:27017/api/0.1/actors/bacon", data=body)
print r.content (Here is the result of the request)

#Example in Rails
@actor1='Robert Pattinson'
@actor2='Tom Felton'
@r = HTTParty.post("**Replace with server url**:27017/api/0.1/actors/bacon", :body=>{'actor[initial_name]'=>@actor1, 'actor[end_name]'=> @actor2})
@r.body #Here is the result of the request

Add Actor and movies

#Post to /api/0.1/actorsandmovies

# params 
movie[name] => Movie name
movie[provider_id] => your own movie id, useful to find it later

actors => Json array with name and provider
EX: [{"provider_id":"1", "name":"na_1"}, {"provider_id":"2", "name":"na_2"}]

#Example in Python (By Augusto)
import requests
import json
actor_list = ['Kevin', 'Jack']
movie_name= 'La gran estafa 3'
actors=json.dumps([dict(name=actor) for actor in actor_list])
body = {'movie[name]': movie_name,'actors': actors}
r = requests.post("**Replace with server url**:27017/api/0.1/actorsandmovies", data=body)
print r.content (Here is the result of the request)

Miscellany

MIT license.
Questions/comments/etc. are welcome.

kulppi/iic2173_actores