neo4j cypher nested collect

Question

Imagine a photo album schema w/ Users, Albums, and Photos:

User -[owns]-> Album -[contains]-> Photo

Can I do a nested collect to get Phot

Answer 1

Try this query:

MATCH (a:USER)-[:owns]->(b:ALBUM)-[:CONTAINS]->(c:PHOTO)
WITH a,b,{url: c.name} as c_photos
WITH a,{album: b.name , photos: collect(c_photos)} as b_albums
WITH {name: a.name, albums: collect(b_albums)} as a_users
RETURN {users: collect(a_users)}

Edit

To get all properties of a node you can use string representation of the node and then parse it separately using java etc

MATCH (a:User)
WITH {user: str(a)} as users
RETURN {users: collect(users)}