Special characters and reserved fields

Special characters

When you run Gremlin queries in Graph Explore, if the string value of a pkey or skey field contains reserved characters such as ;, :, ", (, ), =, or +, you must URL-encode the field value in the query.

Example 1: Querying for an edge where the pkey value is 'ab;33'

• Original query: g("graphName").E("ab;33").hasLabel("tableName")

• The correct syntax is: g("graphName").E("ab%3B33").hasLabel("tableName")

Example 2: Querying for a point where the pkey value is 'user1:user2'

• Original query: g("graphName").V("user1:user2").hasLabel("userName")

• The correct syntax is: g("graphName").E("user1%3Auser2").hasLabel("userName")

Example 3: Batch query for points with the pkey values 'user1', 'user2', and 'user3'

• Original query: g("graphName").V("user1;user2;user3").hasLabel("userName"). Batch queries use a semicolon (;) to separate multiple keys.

Note: Do not URL-encode the query because the field values do not contain special characters.

Reserved fields

For a label, do not use a function name from an expression as a field name.