[Bug] Neo4jError: Property values can only be of primitive types or arrays thereof

[gooftroop]

Ran into the error 'Neo4jError: Property values can only be of primitive types or arrays thereof' while attempting to create a node with a point.
The property shape is:

{
  createdAt: <default value of new Date().toISOString()>,
  location: {
    latitude: <float>,
    longitude: <float>,
  },
  userId: 1,
}

The code being ran is:

const result = await neo4j.model(CHECKIN).create({ ...args.data });

The query being executed is:

"CREATE
(this:Checkin { createdAt: $this_createdAt, id: $this_id, location: $this_location, userId: $this_userId })

RETURN

     this { 
        .*
        ,__EAGER_ID__: id(this)
        ,__EAGER_LABELS__: labels(this)
    }"

The param object is:

I'm still trying to debug, but I'm hoping you've encountered this issue before?

[adam-cowley]

I'm assuming this is down to the date not being converted to the native Neo4j type. For argument sake can you try passing through a neo4j date while I work on a fix?

console.log(createdAt.toString()) // 2018-01-02T12:34:56.1234Z
const nativeDate = new neo4j.temporal.DateTime( createdAt.toString() ) ) 

https://www.adamcowley.co.uk/neo4j/neo4j-temporal-dates-javascript/

[gooftroop]

I think this will have the same issue as I noted in issue #22? The Joi validation will only allow strings to pass the datetime type

[gooftroop]

I'm able to create temporal DateTime using the following snippet from my schema:

createdAt: {
    default: () => new neo4j.types.DateTime.fromStandardDate(new Date()),
    required: true,
    type: 'datetime',
  },

However, this does fail the Joi validation for datetime since the value being validated is an Object rather than a string. Updating the default function to the following allows it to pass validation, but I still get the same error I initially reported:

createdAt: {
    default: () => new neo4j.types.DateTime.fromStandardDate(new Date()).toString(),
    required: true,
    type: 'datetime',
  },

As a note, I'm using neo4j-driver@1.7

[adam-cowley]

I'll spend some time on handling each of the temporal and spatial types over the next couple of days. Bear with me

[gooftroop]

Sounds good 👍
Let me know if I can assist in anyway

[gooftroop]

verified fixed. nice! 🎉