Geo / Spatial

[xenoterracide]

Does Spring Data Neo4j support Data Commons Geo/Neo4j Spatial? if so, could some reference documentation, and maybe a guide for working with map data be added? if not are patches welcome?

I can't give any time frame to when I might be able to work on it, and could probably use some mentorship if that's necessary.

P.S. I kind of hate the mass import of the Spring Data Commons Reference Documentation into the Spring Data Neo4j documentation. It makes it impossible to tell what is actually supported. IMHO it would be better to simply link to specific sections that are supported for sure.

[michael-simons]

Hi @xenoterracide Yes, Neo4j spatial types are well supported. Mappable into our own data types as well as into org.springframework.data.geo.Point

spring-data-neo4j/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/neo4j/integration/shared/common/ThingWithAllSpatialTypes.java

Line 42 in 6ee61d2

public class ThingWithAllSpatialTypes {

Also, derived WITHIN queries are supported.

PS: Yes, we do to, but this is how the projects are setup. This is an issue to be raised with VMWare, maybe at https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-commons

If this answers your question, please close the issue again.

[xenoterracide]

Hmm... there's still not any examples of usage in the docs, or how to set up (the neo4j server part of this could just be a link back to their documentation imo). It could / should be mentioned in the neo4j documentation parts I think. That would have prevented the question of "is it supported" in the first place. This is especially true because the common documentation mentions that it depends on your implementation of whether it's supported. Also spring-projects/spring-data-commons#2489

Also, imho, if people ask questions it's always a good idea to document unless it would be completely inappropriate for some reason. I don't think it's inappropriate in this case; see above paragraph. I very much try to ask questions that shouldn't be in the documentation on stack overflow.

VMware? I thought they had spit pivotal out. Did they reacquire?

[michael-simons]

https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/neo4j/docs/6.1.5/reference/html/#why-should-you-favor-sdn

Support for all modifiers and variations of derived finder methods, including spatial queries

But yes, you are correct.
However, there's little to setup: You just use the types mentioned above, but yeah, should be part of the docs.

Pivotal is thing of the past… https://www.vmware.com/company/acquisitions/pivotal.html

[xenoterracide]

I was searching for "geo" after finding a reference to it in the comments portion of the documentation. If that helps in adding.

[xenoterracide]

Also I opened a request for a guide spring-guides/getting-started-guides#148