Optional Types?

Question

My current query is this:

[{
  "type": "/people/person",
  "also:type": "/film/actor",
  "name": "Chuck Norris",
  "/imdb/topic/name_id": null,
  "date_of_birth": null,
  "/film/actor/film": [{
    "film": [{
      "name": null,
      "imdb_id": []
    }]
  }]
}]

And this works fine for actors. But I want to return films, given a name or IMDB Name ID etc., for anyone who has worked in films. So directors, products, writers etc.

To do this though, requires lots of different types, like: executive_produced_by, produced_by, directed_by etc.

At the moment, if I pass in Mike Newell, I get no results, as he isn't an actor, but a director among other things.

Any ideas as to how to do this in a single query? I am essentially looking for optional types. e.g. find Mike Newell in /film/actors or /film/directed_by etc.

Answer 1

What documentation have you consulted so far? You can use the |= operator to specify multiple IDs, types, etc. You can use the optional: true clause to make a value optional for a property (otherwise, it'll exclude entities which don't have a value for that property).

What have you tried so far and found lacking?