The service root is your starting point to discover the REST API. It contains the basic starting points for the database, and some version and extension information. The reference_node entry will only be present if there is a reference node set and that node actually exists in the database.

Figure 18.1. Final Graph

Example request

Example response

{
  "extensions" : {
  },
  "node" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node",
  "reference_node" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/31",
  "node_index" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/index/node",
  "relationship_index" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/index/relationship",
  "extensions_info" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/ext",
  "relationship_types" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/relationship/types",
  "batch" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/batch",
  "cypher" : "http://localhost:7474/db/data/cypher",
  "neo4j_version" : "1.8"
}