Feature: Add Multi-Pattern Graph Visualization

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Feature Description

Currently Bloodhound Community Edition (BHCE) only supports primary path visualisation (only display the match that is in the 1st position of the RETURN clause). Whereas Neo4j Browser supports multi-pattern visualization. The ask is to add multi-pattern visualization to BHCE.

Example:

• BHCE will only display p
• Neo4j will display p+p1+p2

MATCH p=(a:User)<-[:HasSession]-(b:Computer)
OPTIONAL MATCH p1=(a)-[:MemberOf*1..]->(c:Group)
OPTIONAL MATCH p2=(c)-[:AdminTo]->(:Computer)
RETURN p,p1,p2
LIMIT 100

Are you intending to implement this feature?

no

Current Behavior

BHCE is currently designed to focus on one primary path at a time, therefore only BHCE will only display the p in the below query.

MATCH p=(a:User)<-[:HasSession]-(b:Computer)
OPTIONAL MATCH p1=(a)-[:MemberOf*1..]->(c:Group)
OPTIONAL MATCH p2=(c)-[:AdminTo]->(:Computer)
RETURN p,p1,p2
LIMIT 100

Note: It is possible to expose Neo4j to perform the queries, however it lacks BHCE's icons.

Desired Behavior

Introduce the multi-pattern capability (return the sum of p+p1+p2) to BHCE to then display more complex/comprehensive graphs.

MATCH p=(a:User)<-[:HasSession]-(b:Computer)
OPTIONAL MATCH p1=(a)-[:MemberOf*1..]->(c:Group)
OPTIONAL MATCH p2=(c)-[:AdminTo]->(:Computer)
RETURN p,p1,p2
LIMIT 100

Use Case

It allows for more speculative queries to be written that will return some data even when not all conditions are met, allowing for greater flexible in use cases in an unknown environment.

Implementation Suggestions

I have no implementation insights/suggestions.

Additional Information

It would be possible to write the about example query using a serialised method. However it would that if any part of the query fails or is not a match, the entire query would return no results.

MATCH p=(:Computer)-->(a)-[:MemberOf*1..]->(:Group)-[:AdminTo]->(:Computer)
RETURN p
LIMIT 100