org.neo4j.ogm.session

Class SessionFactory

java.lang.Object

org.neo4j.ogm.session.SessionFactory

public class SessionFactory
extends Object

Used to create Session instances for interacting with Neo4j.

Author:

Vince Bickers, Luanne Misquitta

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SessionFactory(Configuration configuration, String... packages) Constructs a new SessionFactory by initialising the object-graph mapping meta-data from the given list of domain object packages, and also sets the configuration to be used.
SessionFactory(String... packages) Constructs a new SessionFactory by initialising the object-graph mapping meta-data from the given list of domain object packages.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
MetaData	metaData() Retrieves the meta-data that was built up when this SessionFactory was constructed.
Session	openSession() Opens a new Neo4j mapping Session using the Driver specified in the OGM configuration The driver should be configured to connect to the database using the appropriate DriverConfig

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SessionFactory

public SessionFactory(String... packages)

Constructs a new SessionFactory by initialising the object-graph mapping meta-data from the given list of domain object packages.

The package names passed to this constructor should not contain wildcards or trailing full stops, for example, "org.springframework.data.neo4j.example.domain" would be fine. The default behaviour is for sub-packages to be scanned and you can also specify fully-qualified class names if you want to cherry pick particular classes.

Parameters:

packages - The packages to scan for domain objects

SessionFactory

public SessionFactory(Configuration configuration,
              String... packages)

Constructs a new SessionFactory by initialising the object-graph mapping meta-data from the given list of domain object packages, and also sets the configuration to be used.

The package names passed to this constructor should not contain wildcards or trailing full stops, for example, "org.springframework.data.neo4j.example.domain" would be fine. The default behaviour is for sub-packages to be scanned and you can also specify fully-qualified class names if you want to cherry pick particular classes.

Parameters:

packages - The packages to scan for domain objects

Method Detail

metaData

public MetaData metaData()

Retrieves the meta-data that was built up when this SessionFactory was constructed.

Returns:

The underlying MetaData

openSession

public Session openSession()

Opens a new Neo4j mapping Session using the Driver specified in the OGM configuration The driver should be configured to connect to the database using the appropriate DriverConfig

Returns:

A new Session