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Asked: 2026-05-24T21:21:41+00:00

This is for people with knowledge on REST and Neo4j. Is it possible to

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This is for people with knowledge on REST and Neo4j.
Is it possible to name a node before creating it in Neo4j ?
Typical Restful thing, you create a URI “XXX/db/data/node/mynode” and you want to create a node with this identifier if it is not existent in the moment.
For all that I have been researching (and testing) to the present moment, the answer is : “no it is not possible, neo4j will just always automatically give ids to the created nodes and the attempt to do create a URI and use POST to cause its creation will result in 405”

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  1. Editorial Team

    That’s correct, you can’t set the id of a node. What you can do is to add some other kind of id as a property, see create node with properties. Just make sure it’s indexed automatically and then you can query that index for exact matches.

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