In this section, we will discuss and develop RESTful APIs for performing CRUD and search operations over our social network data, using Flask-RESTful extension and py2neo extension—Object-Graph Mapper (OGM). Let's move forward to first quickly talk about the OGM and then develop full-fledged REST APIs over our social network data.
We discussed about the py2neo in Chapter 4, Getting Python and Neo4j to Talk Py2neo. In this section, we will talk about one of the py2neo extensions that provides high-level APIs for dealing with the underlying graph database as objects and its relationships.
Object-Graph Mapping (http://py2neo.org/2.0/ext/ogm.html) is one of the popular extensions of py2neo and provides the mapping of Neo4j graphs in the form of objects and relationships. It provides similar functionality and features as Object Relational Model (ORM) available for relational databases py2neo.ext.ogm.Store(graph)...