Create doesn't work with lists

[Yorkst]

db.nodes.create(parameter=[]) fails with "Bad Request. Bad request syntax or unsupported method."

[versae]

That's because the REST API doesn't support storing objects as properties values other than plain numbers, booleans, and strings. Plus, Neo4j doesn't store either null or empty property values.

[Yorkst]

My neo4j sure does

create (t:Test {data: []})

match(t:Test) return t.data

[versae]

Does that work through the REST API using the API methods and not Cypher queries? I'll double check.

[versae]

Just tried with 2.2.10 and 2.3.7 and got this:

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://localhost:7474/db/data/node -d '{"prop": []}'
{
  "message" : "Unable to set property 'prop' to an empty array, because, since there are no values of any type in it, and no pre-existing collection to infer type from, it is not possible to determine what type of array to store.",
  "exception" : "PropertyValueException",
  "fullname" : "org.neo4j.server.rest.web.PropertyValueException",
  "stackTrace" : [ "org.neo4j.server.rest.domain.PropertySettingStrategy.setProperty(PropertySettingStrategy.java:120)", "org.neo4j.server.rest.domain.PropertySettingStrategy.setProperties(PropertySettingStrategy.java:88)", "org.neo4j.server.rest.web.DatabaseActions.createNode(DatabaseActions.java:205)", "org.neo4j.server.rest.web.RestfulGraphDatabase.createNode(RestfulGraphDatabase.java:252)", "java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)", "org.neo4j.server.rest.transactional.TransactionalRequestDispatcher.dispatch(TransactionalRequestDispatcher.java:139)", "org.neo4j.server.rest.web.CollectUserAgentFilter.doFilter(CollectUserAgentFilter.java:69)", "java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)" ],
  "errors" : [ {
    "message" : "Unable to set property 'prop' to an empty array, because, since there are no values of any type in it, and no pre-existing collection to infer type from, it is not possible to determine what type of array to store.",
    "code" : "Neo.ClientError.Statement.InvalidArguments"
  } ]
}