A Servlet allowing to control a Neo4J instance using JSON RPC (ajax/javascript). This uses Spring and Neo4jTemplate to communicate with a db instance and jquery for a dynamic console to embed. This is very leight-weight, but allows almost full control over your neo4j.

Its purpose is to be included within a neo4j based web application, that wants to easily debug without having to open the neoj console explicitly.

It allows traversing a neo4j tree by using command line parameters like:

• ls
• cd [nodeId]
• set ATTRIBUTE = value

Yes there is a neo4j rest api, and there already exists a console application. But both of them require pretty native access. In this case I want to enable remote-admin without having to expose the whole db. I use the same connection, my applications use to access the database and can also include the console directly within the applicaiton to reuse the existing access control mechanism.

It also allows to quickly debug an existing database while still in development.

I would strongly suggest NOT to use this in a live application because of possible security issues, the access through the servlet is after all pretty low level.

• spring-web: for access to access controller bean
• spring-data-neo4j: Uses Spring for NEO4J and
• jackson: for the RPC binding

The user interface is handled by jquery.terminal

Download the jar and include it in your project.

Add the servlets into your web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http:https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http:https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http:https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http:https://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
...
	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>Neo4JAdminConsole</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>com.corinis.neo4jadmin.servlet.NeoAdmin</servlet-class>
		<init-param>
			<!--
				Automatically create a Session within the servlet
			-->
			<param-name>autoCreateSession</param-name>
			<param-value>true</param-value>
		</init-param>
		<init-param>
			<!--
				get the spring bean that acts as an access controller
			-->
			<param-name>accessControllerBean</param-name>
			<param-value>auto</param-value> <!-- or name of bean -->
		</init-param>

	</servlet>
...
	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>Neo4JAdminConsole</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/ajax/console</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
...
</web-app>

Note: If you do not want/need an access controller (because you use the console for debugging only) - just remove the accessControllerBean init parameter. Combined with autoCreateSession

You can simply add the https://github.com/corinis/Neo4jAdminServlet/tree/master/src/main/webapp/console files to your webapp (it does NOT need any dynamic jsp or other component).

To manually do it: First download the terminal library from jquery.terminal.

Integrate it: <script src="http:https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script> <script src="js/jquery.mousewheel-min.js"></script> <script src="js/jquery.terminal-0.8.2.min.js"></script>

Initialize the temrminal with collowing code (adapt the div id and the url of the console as defined in the webapp): var term = $("#myTerminalDiv").terminal("/ajax/console", { prompt: '>', name: 'console', greetings: "Start browsing in neo4j. For usage and commands type 'help'." });

It can be easily integrated using jquery ui to be in a floating window - instead of inline.

This is a simple access controller, that just requres a session with a "username" attribute that is not "anonymous". The login for this can be handled anywhere else (i.e. a jsp):

@Service("neo4JAdminAcccessController)
public class Neo4jAdminAccessControllerImpl implements Neo4jAdminAccessController {

	public boolean canAccess(HttpSession session) {
		if(session == null)
			return false;
		if(session.getAttribute("username") == null || "anonymous".equals(session.getAttribute("username")))
			return false;
		return false;
	}

	public boolean canExecute(HttpSession session, final RPC rpc, long curNode) {
		// if there is a session - just execute anything
		return true;
	}
}