Spring data does a lot to help you focus on writing your cypher queries while it handles mapping the results for you. However, when your queries become more complex, it starts to struggle. This is where you need to step in and explicitly map the query results into your domain objects.

In this post, we will look at how you can query a path and map the results using Spring Data Neo4j.

Simple Queries Are Mapped for You

For simple queries, you can get away with only defining the relevant entity and relationship classes, Spring will do the rest.

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