Types of IDs of vertices and edges

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Are the vertices always have integer IDs? Vertex ids are always like 12212 Are the edges always have UUID or string-like IDs? Edge ids are always like "16p-360-2dx-9jk"

Please see this answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67759285/edgeid-is-returned-as-alpha-numeric-instead-of-long-in-janusgraph/67776644?noredirect=1#comment121516046_67776644 — Kelvin Lawrence, Aug 12 '21 at 13:48
For now they are always LONG values. There is some interesting discussion here https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/issues/1221 — Kelvin Lawrence, Aug 12 '21 at 14:37

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 14 '21 at 12:46

The subject of how IDs are managed in JanusGraph seems to be a regular topic of confusion. It would probably good to add something to the official documentation that is easy to find a clearly describes the behavior.

Vertex IDs are LONG values. Currently you cannot supply a string or UUID as a vertex ID.

Edge IDs are handled a little differently using a RelationIdentifier as described in this answer: edgeID is returned as alpha numeric instead of long in Janusgraph

Types of IDs of vertices and edges

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