> Thinking out loud. How much additional work would it be to keep the "old" 
> rest in a legacy module

It would still require to be maintained, I would prefer not to have it
unless there is a specific use case for it

>. Does Bolt run atop HTTP as I remember it

I don't think so, it's a binary protocol that connects to a port using sockets.

> PS: it's a bit sad that we implement something (rest remote) and it's ready 
> and by lack of release it is replaced and remove it without seeing the light 
> of day. Release often.

That's actually a bad call from my side, I wanted to release with the
new ORM and it took longer than expected to merge the PR.

Davide

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Emmanuel Bernard
<emman...@hibernate.org> wrote:
> Thinking out loud. How much additional work would it be to keep the "old" 
> rest in a legacy module separated from the pure one?
> Does it even make sense?
>
> I'm fine with the removal and focus on bolt on a general basis. Does Bolt run 
> atop HTTP as I remember it ? Or is that specific ? If the later some might 
> want to keep using rest.
>
> Emmanuel
>
> PS: it's a bit sad that we implement something (rest remote) and it's ready 
> and by lack of release it is replaced and remove it without seeing the light 
> of day. Release often.
>
>> On 22 août 2016, at 22:25, Guillaume Smet <guillaume.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Davide,
>>
>> I wanted to add 2 things:
>> - Neo4j remote with Rest has not been released yet;
>> - if we remove the Rest protocol, remote Neo4j will only be supported with
>> Neo4j >= 3
>>
>> Personally I'm +1 to only support remote Neo4j with Bolt. Maintaining one
>> more dialect/protocol just to provide remote for Neo4j < 3 does not sound
>> like a good tradeoff to me.
>>
>> --
>> Guillaume
>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Davide D'Alto <dav...@hibernate.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> at the moment in OGM we connect remotely using the Rest API.
>>> The reason is that when I created the dialect the new Bolt[1] protocol
>>> wasn't available.
>>>
>>> I've now finished implementing the dialect so that it uses the Bolt
>>> protocol, there is a lot of duplication since it is very similar to
>>> the approach I used for Rest.
>>>
>>> I worked for a while trying to improve the code but I started to
>>> wonder if it might be really helpful to provide two ways to connect
>>> remotely with an increase in complexity of the code (more interfaces
>>> mainly with some additional classes).
>>>
>>> I'm now of the idea that we could remove the dialect thata uses Rest
>>> and only keep the one that uses Bolt (as suggested by Giulliame in an
>>> old chat on hipchat).
>>>
>>> This will simplify the code and we can always add it back if the need
>>> arise or somebody asks.
>>> Note that the Bolt protocol is the suggested one to use for Neo4j
>>> since it promises better performance.
>>> It will also allow us to remove some dependencies required for the rest
>>> client.
>>>
>>> Please, let me know if you think there is value in keeping  both
>>> approaches, otherwise I'm going to send a PR that removes the remote
>>> one.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Davide
>>>
>>> [1]  https://dzone.com/articles/introducing-bolt-neo4js-
>>> upcoming-binary-protocol-p
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