I am importing some .cvs files for my database in neo4j, but I have the data of people in three different files, so when I import the data of the person from another file that has more data, I get an error when trying to import people nodes, because I already have other nodes with those dni (constraint) in my database.
So I want to create the new node or, if it exists, retrieve its pointer to create relationships with other nodes that I keep creating while I import.
I have tried several things on the internet but I still can't find the solution
Here my code:
LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM 'file:/D:/ACCOUNT.csv' AS line FIELDTERMINATOR ';'
MERGE (persona :Persona { dni: line.DNI,
nombre: line.NOMBRE,
sexo: line.SEXO,
fechaNacimiento: line.FNACIMIENTO,
direccion: line.DIRECCION
})
I have tried with apoc and "with" but I still can't find the solution. when this code finds another node with a person label and ID equal to the one entered, it gives me an error
To get this working, you'll have to understand how MERGE
works. The statement
MERGE (persona :Persona { dni: line.DNI, nombre: line.NOMBRE, sexo: line.SEXO,
fechaNacimiento: line.FNACIMIENTO,direccion: line.DIRECCION
})
will create a new Persona
node for every distinct combination of the above properties. So, for a node with the same dni
, but with other values of other properties, this will fail. To fix this, you should try merging the nodes on the basis of their dni
, and then set the properties like this:
MERGE (persona :Persona { dni: line.DNI })
ON CREATE
SET persona.nombre = line.NOMBRE,
persona.sexo = line.SEXO,
persona.fechaNacimiento = line.FNACIMIENTO,
persona.direccion = line.DIRECCION
The above query will ignore setting properties if a matching node is found. To set some properties when a match is found, use ON MATCH
, like this:
MERGE (persona :Persona { dni: line.DNI })
ON CREATE
SET persona.nombre = line.NOMBRE,
persona.sexo = line.SEXO,
persona.fechaNacimiento = line.FNACIMIENTO,
persona.direccion = line.DIRECCION
ON MATCH
// Matching logic here