How to solve the following error in Eclipse?

Question

I have the following code, this is to create a graph from Wikipedia index. This code is trying to import Wikipedia graph into a graph.db directory.

// Copyright (c) 2012 Mirko Nasato
//

package org.graphipedia.dataimport.neo4j;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.neo4j.unsafe.batchinsert.BatchInserter;
import org.neo4j.unsafe.batchinsert.BatchInserters;

public class ImportGraph {

    private final BatchInserter inserter;
    private final Map<String, Long> inMemoryIndex;

    public ImportGraph(String dataDir) {
        inserter = BatchInserters.inserter(dataDir);
        inserter.createDeferredSchemaIndex(WikiLabel.Page).on("title").create();
        inMemoryIndex = new HashMap<String, Long>();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        if (args.length < 2) {
            System.out.println("USAGE: ImportGraph <input-file> <data-dir>");
            System.exit(255);
        }
        String inputFile = args[0];
        String dataDir = args[1];
        ImportGraph importer = new ImportGraph(dataDir);
        importer.createNodes(inputFile);
        importer.createRelationships(inputFile);
        importer.finish();
    }

    public void createNodes(String fileName) throws Exception {
        System.out.println("Importing pages...");
        NodeCreator nodeCreator = new NodeCreator(inserter, inMemoryIndex);
        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        nodeCreator.parse(fileName);
        long elapsedSeconds = (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime) / 1000;
        System.out.printf("\n%d pages imported in %d seconds.\n", nodeCreator.getPageCount(), elapsedSeconds);
    }

    public void createRelationships(String fileName) throws Exception {
        System.out.println("Importing links...");
        RelationshipCreator relationshipCreator = new RelationshipCreator(inserter, inMemoryIndex);
        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        relationshipCreator.parse(fileName);
        long elapsedSeconds = (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime) / 1000;
        System.out.printf("\n%d links imported in %d seconds; %d broken links ignored\n",
                relationshipCreator.getLinkCount(), elapsedSeconds, relationshipCreator.getBadLinkCount());
    }

    public void finish() {
        inserter.shutdown();
    }

}

However, every time I run this code, I am running into the following error.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem: 
    The method inserter(File) in the type BatchInserters is not applicable for the arguments (String)

    at org.graphipedia.dataimport.neo4j.ImportGraph.<init>(ImportGraph.java:36)
    at org.graphipedia.dataimport.neo4j.ImportGraph.main(ImportGraph.java:48)

Answer 1

Based on this javadoc https://neo4j.com/docs/java-reference/current/javadocs/org/neo4j/unsafe/batchinsert/BatchInserters.html

BatchInserters needs a File, not "path/to/dir" string. You will need to create a file object and pass it in.

Code: Add an import at the top.

import java.io.File

Then replace the following line

inserter = BatchInserters.inserter(dataDir);

with this

inserter = BatchInserters.inserter(new File(dataDir));