Indexes only work if NetworkX ids are integers

_create_node and _create_edge accept only integers as ids (nx_id, from_id, to_id). The ids could be, e.g., strings. Graphviz Python libraries create node ids that are integers. If ids are not integers it’s impossible to generate valid Memgraph queries.

Take a look here (How to analyze Python, Cpp and Rust dependencies? PART 2) to see the details about the problem. The solution was to use gqlalchemy as a library and reuse some of the functions, but it’s definitely possible to push all the required capabilities into gqlalchemy.

[MasterMedo]

I see two ways to tackle this.

1. Add support for strings and escape the index when creating the cypher query with quotes.
2. Support all data types by hashing the ID with a function to an integer.

What do you think, is there a better way for approaching this?

[gitbuda]

Here is a minimal example, example.py produces queries that can’t be imported. Please rename the example files because .py and .dot can’t be directly uploaded here 😄

example_dot.txt example_py.txt requirements.txt