WITH performs functional operations on the alias and pass the result onto later statements. Heterologous aliases will be Cartesian multiplied.

Syntax: WITH <expression> as <alias>, <expression> as <alias>, ...
Input:

• <expression>: Operational expression
• <alias>: Alias of operational result, optional

Deduplicating an alias in WITH will affect its homologous aliases.

For instance, the deduplication against n2.color affects its homologous alias pnodes(path); the Cartesian multiplication against heterologous aliases n1 and list also affects color, the homologous alias of list:

find().nodes() as n1 limit 2
n(3).e()[2].n(as n2) as path
with pnodes(path) as list, dedup(n2.color) as color
with n1, list
return n1, list, color

Sample graph: (to be used for the following examples)

create().node_schema("account").node_schema("movie").edge_schema("rate").edge_schema("wishlist")
create().node_property(@*, "name").node_property(@account, "age", int32).node_property(@movie, "year", int32).edge_property(@rate, "score", int32)
insert().into(@account).nodes([{_id:"S001", _uuid:1, name:"Pepe", age:24}, {_id:"S002", _uuid:2, name:"Lina", age:23}, {_id:"S003", _uuid:3, name:"Emma", age:26}])
insert().into(@movie).nodes([{_id:"M001", _uuid:4, name:"Léon", year:1994}, {_id:"M002", _uuid:5, name:"Avatar", year:2009}])
insert().into(@rate).edges([{_uuid:1, _from_uuid:1, _to_uuid:4, score:9}, {_uuid:2, _from_uuid:3, _to_uuid:5, score:8}])
insert().into(@wishlist).edges([{_uuid:3, _from_uuid:2, _to_uuid:4}, {_uuid:4, _from_uuid:3, _to_uuid:4}])

Functional Operation

Example: Find all the nodes of @account that are youngest, return their name

find().nodes({@account}) as a
with min(a.age) as minAge
find().nodes({@account.age == minAge}) as b
return b.name

Lina

Analysis: The method of sorting all accounts into ascending age and return only one result might miss some results that are also the youngest.

Cartesian Product

Example: Pair nodes of @account and @movie, find 1-step paths @account-@movie, return null for those pairs that do not have any path

find().nodes({@account}) as a
find().nodes({@movie}) as b
with a, b
optional n(a).e().n(b) as p
return p{*}

Pepe --@rate--> Léon
null --null-- null
Lina --@wishlist--> Léon
null --null-- null
Emma --@wishlist--> Léon
Emma --@rate--> Avatar