Server should respond to queries with a progress report

[lassewesth]

@vlad: 'When serving a query, the server should respond with progress ‘reporters’. It would be great if they were human readable (so the user can see what’s going on) and machine parseable (so that a client library could pass it on to the application using the library, or choose to ignore this information.)

The report could be a simple dot every 5 seconds, or more information like the number of nodes processed during the last interval (or since start), etc.

http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/#reporters shows a few interesting reporters that can be configured for a javascript testing framework called mocha (though of course they are mostly not-relevant in this case.)'

[lassewesth]

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[lassewesth]

@akollegger: This is a really good suggestion, and those reporters look pretty great. We'll take a look at the right way to do something like this.

Thanks,
Andreas

[jakewins]

Definitely something to take into consideration, particularily when looking at improving the remoting of Neo4j. I'll add this to the suggestion box.