#Maki-Sushi

##Intro Maki-Sushi is a Neo4J REST API wrapper (hence the name), which allows you to call the API in simple, comprehensible code.

It was developped by Jo Colina @jsmrcaga to use with Graphr, a simple graph viewer.

##Installation You can install maki-sushi globally or locally like so:

Locally:

npm install maki-sushi

Global:

npm install maki-sushi -g

##Usage

var maki = require('maki-sushi');

We will be using maki in the rest of the documentation to reference an instance of maki-sushi.

###Config Different methods allow you to configure Maki-Sushi, however, most of them are used by maki-sushi internal functions, which you can use to simplify your code. You can use these configuration functions if you need to make custom requests to your Neo4j server.

####setEndpoint(host, path) This function overrides the default host: localhost and path /db/data. Only to use if you have configured your Neo4J server to listen in a different endpoint.

####setPort(port) This function overrides the default port 7474. Only to use if you have configured your Neo4J server to listen on a different port.

####setId(user, password) This function sets your IDs in need of authentication. In Neo4J auth is treated with a simple HTTP header in base 64

####setPath(path) This function appends the path to the base path endpoint. Eg: setPath("/transaction") returns "/db/data/transaction"

####setMethod(method) Sets the HTTP method to use in query: GET, POST, DELETE, PUT.

####setHeaders(headers) Set headers to send with request. Must be defined as JSON:

{
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
	"headerX" : "valueX"
}

###Callbacks Every function called by maki requires a callback. Each callback is given the status code of the response (as Neo4J uses very different statuses for responses) and the corresponding response in a JSON string.

Your callbacks must then be as follows:

function(status, response){
	if(status > 400){
		// typically error
		return;
	}

	treat(response);
}

###Nodes Simple node manipulations functions. ####create(properties, callback) This method, called as: maki.nodes.create(properties, callback) creates a node in Neo4J with the given properties. Properties are sent as a javascript Object Literal. EG:

maki.nodes.create({
	name: 'MyNodeName'
}, function(st, res){
	// do something
});