Friends of Friends n hops away

Hi,

is there a way to take all nodes n hops away. For example

 {
  set {
   _:a <name> "a" .
   _:b <name> "b" .
   _:c <name> "c" .
   _:d <name> "d" .
   _:e <name> "e" .

   _:a <child> _:b .
   _:b <child> _:c .
   _:c <child> _:d .
   _:d <child> _:e .
   
   _:a <type> "astnode" .
   _:b <type> "astnode" .
   _:c <type> "astnode" .
   _:d <type> "astnode" .
   _:e <type> "astnode" .

   _:a <kind> "file" .
   _:b <kind> "class" .
   _:c <kind> "func" .
   _:d <kind> "if" .
   _:e <kind> "var" .
  }
}

For example 2 hops from c we have a and e.
How can I acheive this? Is it with a recursive query? Can you show me how?
I have gone trough some posts, for example Recursive Queries
But I cannot get a working example(recursive query does not compile), can you please help?

Thanks,
Stanka

For two hops, you can just do this. Note, edges are not bidirectional in Dgraph so this won’t give a, only e.

{
  me(func: uid(c)) {
    child {
      child {
        name
      }
    }
  }
}

When I execute the upper statement I got
“Some variables are used but not defined Defined: Used:[c]”

You have to use the unique id for c. Sorry, I didn’t make that clear. Another way is to search by name.

{
  me(func: eq(name, "c")) {
    child {
      child {
        name
      }
    }
  }
}

Thank you very much, this works as expected! I have tree more questions:
1)Can I get C parent easily? For example: get all c direct descendants and ascendants, i.e. can I go back?
2)Is there a special property for node type? For example if I have two types of nodes, one for movies and one for directors, how to take all movies?
3)Can I take first 10 nodes, BUT without filter

Should I post these questions as a separete post? Thank you, Stanka.

All these questions could have been answered by doing a little more research as they have been asked before.

Sure, look at reverse edges.

Dgraph doesn’t assign any labels to nodes by default. you have to associate a property for the type of nodes. Then you can do a has query. See Get started with Dgraph

You have to apply a function at root to filter the initial set of nodes. Then you can take the first 10 or first n.

so is there any way to ‘search’ bi-directionally?

For anyone that ends up here looking for a similar answer, take a look at my related question here: Flattening to get unique nodes within n steps