Improvement: handling multiple links between nodes

[gg4u]

Hi, I am looking at:
https://bl.ocks.org/mattkohl/146d301c0fc20d89d85880df537de7b0

at the moment in ngraph is possibile to have two link between two nodes, with an id of the edge like "from.id-to.id" corresponding to the id of vertexes.

Have you considered the possibility to pass custom IDs , so that is possible to have multiple types of links?

[anvaka]

Hi Luigi, just wanted to acknowledge that I'm reading this, and thinking about it. I like the idea of custom ids a lot.

[gg4u]

Thank you, there are scenarios for traversing multiple types of viewpoints (aka type of links) that I would be indeed happy to work on and explore, for public audiences and open governance. If you are interested in, happy to share thoughts about data to consider in PVT!

[gg4u]

I would go for something like _id = <relationshipType>-<fromId>-<toId> not sure if a purely custom _id like _id = 'yesImACustomLink!' can be of actual utility like instead it is for nodes... Have not thought about a use case but to query links for relationshipType.