neo4j spatial findGeometriesWithinDistance REST

Question

Using neo4j 1.9 and neo4j spatial for 1.9. Trying to get findGeometriesWithinDistance REST call working.

I can confirm that the install has worked and that the function exists BUT, using the http console I get a "Node 0 does not exist" error. The REST request I make is exactly as in the docs but instead of returning nodes I get this error.

What is going on that requires node 0 to exist and hence causes the error?

For info, the REST findGeometriesInBBox works fine.

On Further Investigation...

Using py2neo to interact with the DB. In particular, we make use of the GregorianCalendar functionality (see here). When removed from our logic the process of findGeometriesWithinDistance works fine.

Looking into it further, there are comments in the py2neo code that say #retain a handle to the root node (see the first code example here).

Does this "handle" do something with the node of index 0 so we can't use it?

Answer 1

Did you accidentally clean out your database?

I.e. remove node 0, which was the reference node that neo4j-spatial connected its root elements to (in 1.9)?