5.7.0
🔬 Experimental/Preview changes
- the
Neo4j.Driver.Experimental
namespace has been renamed toNeo4j.Driver.Preview
. This will be a compile-time breaking change for any code using this namespace. No functionality has been changed.
⭐ New Features
- ⭐ Introduce
IDriver.TryVerifyConnectivityAsync
⭐ Notifications Updates #691
Introduce better notifications, and configuration(Docs).
NotificationSeverity
Introduce NotificationSeverity
enum represents to represent a notification's severity level.
Severities:
Warning
Information
Unknown
NotificationCategory
Introduce NotificationCategory
enum represents to represent a notification's category.
Categories:
Hint
Unrecognized
Unsupported
Performance
Deprecation
Generic
Unknown
Notification
The INotification
interface extended with 4 new properties:
NotificationSeverity SeverityLevel
string RawSeverityLevel
NotificationCategory Category
string RawCategory
The Raw
prefixed properties return an unparsed string
representation returned by the server.
In case of an unrecognised values, both SeverityLevel
and Category
will be Unknown
.
This may happen if a new value is introduced in a future server version and a previous driver version does not support it.
Additionally, Unknown
may be returned when driver communicates with a server version that does not supply these values.
Deprecation ⚠️
The Severity
property has been deprecated in favour of the RawSeverityLevel
property.
NotificationConfig
Introduce INotificationConfig
type has been introduced to allow notification preferences management.
By default, the server determines what notifications are provided to the driver.
However, user can set a minimum severity level and/or a set of disabled notification categories to manage its expectations.
This feature is only supported on Bolt protocol version 5.2(Introduced in server 5.7) and above.
Both the Config
and the SessionConfig
support this new configuration, configured with builders:
ConfigBuilder.WithNotificationsDisabled
5.7 API DocConfigBuilder.WithNotifications
5.7 API DocSessionConfigBuilder.WithNotificationsDisabled
5.7 API DocSessionConfigBuilder.WithNotifications
5.7 API Doc
Introduce Severity
(API Docs) & Category
(API Docs) enums for configuration.
Notification Configuration Hierarchy
Servers will assess which notifications to emit based on a hierarchy, using the most recently declared values.
using var driver = GraphDatabase.Driver(Neo4jUrl, AuthToken, cb => cb.WithNotificationsDisabled());
using var session = driver.AsyncSession();
...
var summary = await cursor.ConsumeAsync();
// No notifications should be emitted.
// This is useful for helping the server optimize operations as the server doesn't need to assess for any notifications.
// Notifications are not sent over the wire too meaning less data!
Debug.Assert(summary.Notifications.Count() == 0);
Severity configuration sets the minimum level of a notification, while category confugration is used to disable a category.
using var driver = GraphDatabase.Driver(Neo4jUrl, AuthToken, cb => cb.WithNotifications(Severity.Warning, null));
using var session = driver.AsyncSession(scb => scb.WithNotifications(null, new []{Category.Performance}));
...
var summary = await cursor.ConsumeAsync();
// no Information or performance notifications emitted.
Debug.Assert(summary.Notifications.Count(x =>
x.NotificationCategory == NotificationCategory.Performance ||
x.NotificationSeverity == NotificationSeverity.Information) == 0);
if you require to enable a previously disabled categories for a session you can emit it from disabledCategories
parameter.
using var driver = GraphDatabase.Driver(Neo4jUrl, AuthToken, cb => cb.WithNotifications(null, new []{Category.Performance}));
using var session = driver.AsyncSession(scb => scb.WithNotifications(null, new Category[]{}));
...
var summary = await cursor.ConsumeAsync();
// Notifications can contain anything again!
Bolt
This update includes support for both 5.1 and 5.2 versions. The latter is required for the full support of the new notification updates.