The serialiser gets confused which object to deserialize if type is dictionary.

Following code works fine in first search when you cast node as dictionary as “root”, but if it’s assigned to property of anonymous or typed object, then it decides that your node is Node object and gets it’s properties. I think it might be related to v 1.1 change of return type of enumerator

void Main()
{
    var graph = new GraphClient(new Uri($"http://localhost:7474/db/data"), "neo4j", "neo4j");
    graph.Connect();
    var r1 = new Dictionary<string, string>() { { "Id", "1" }, { "Name", "First" }};
    graph.Cypher
       .Create("(node:Record {entity})")
       .WithParam("entity", r1)
       .ExecuteWithoutResults();

    var result = graph.Cypher
                    .Match("(node:Record)")
                    .Where((Record node) => node.Id == "1")
                    .Return((node) => node.As<Dictionary<string, string>>() )
                    .Results;
    result.Dump();

    var resultNode = graph.Cypher
                .Match("(node:Record)")
                .Where((Record node) => node.Id == "1")
                .Return((node) => new { Record = node.As<Dictionary<string, string>>()})
                .Results;
resultNode.Dump()   ;           
}

public class Record
{
    public string Id { get; set; }
}

[cskardon]

I’m closing this as it looks like it’s gone to hibernation - any objections please reopen! ta!

[cskardon]

In terms of your second question regarding what you’d pull back for ref=node-[r:Reference]-(rfr) the data back from Neo4j itself is a collection of Urls to the nodes and relationships, the default way to look at that is:

.Return<PathsResult>("ref");

Problem for you is that you probably don’t want PathsResult instances, as that’s just links and pretty useless - what you’d be more after would be converting to Node/Relationship instances - I wrote a post a long time ago - but it should be still valid (http://geekswithblogs.net/cskardon/archive/2013/07/23/neo4jclient-ndash-getting-path-results.aspx) covering that aspect…