Filter cdc events skipping nodes not present in the schema

.changeset/tasty-onions-laugh.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@neo4j/graphql": patch
+---
+
+CDC subscription optimization. Only node events with labels present in the GraphQL schema will be queried. This will reduce the number of subscription events queried by skipping events to nodes that cannot be subscribed through GraphQL

packages/graphql/src/classes/subscription/Neo4jGraphQLSubscriptionsCDCEngine.ts

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import { EventEmitter } from "events";
 import type { Driver, QueryConfig } from "neo4j-driver";
 import { Memoize } from "typescript-memoize";
+import type { Neo4jGraphQLSchemaModel } from "../../schema-model/Neo4jGraphQLSchemaModel";
 import type { Neo4jGraphQLSubscriptionsEngine, SubscriptionEngineContext, SubscriptionsEvent } from "../../types";
 import { CDCApi } from "./cdc/cdc-api";
 import { CDCEventParser } from "./cdc/cdc-event-parser";
@@ -33,6 +34,8 @@ export class Neo4jGraphQLSubscriptionsCDCEngine implements Neo4jGraphQLSubscript
     private timer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | undefined;
     private closed = false;
 
+    private subscribeToLabels: string[] | undefined;
+
     constructor({
         driver,
         pollTime = 1000,
@@ -63,6 +66,9 @@ export class Neo4jGraphQLSubscriptionsCDCEngine implements Neo4jGraphQLSubscript
     public async init({ schemaModel }: SubscriptionEngineContext): Promise<void> {
         await this.cdcApi.updateCursor();
         this._parser = new CDCEventParser(schemaModel);
+        this.subscribeToLabels = this.getLabelsToFilter(schemaModel);
+
+        schemaModel.concreteEntities.map((e) => Array.from(e.labels));
         this.triggerPoll();
     }
 
@@ -91,12 +97,18 @@ export class Neo4jGraphQLSubscriptionsCDCEngine implements Neo4jGraphQLSubscript
     }
 
     private async pollEvents(): Promise<void> {
-        const cdcEvents = await this.cdcApi.queryEvents();
+        const cdcEvents = await this.cdcApi.queryEvents(this.subscribeToLabels);
         for (const cdcEvent of cdcEvents) {
             const parsedEvent = this.parser.parseCDCEvent(cdcEvent);
             if (parsedEvent) {
                 this.events.emit(parsedEvent.event, parsedEvent);
             }
         }
     }
+
+    private getLabelsToFilter(schemaModel: Neo4jGraphQLSchemaModel): string[] {
+        const uniqueLabels = new Set(schemaModel.concreteEntities.flatMap((e) => Array.from(e.labels)));
+
+        return Array.from(uniqueLabels);
+    }
 }

packages/graphql/src/classes/subscription/cdc/cdc-api.ts

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 
 import Cypher from "@neo4j/cypher-builder";
 import type { Driver, QueryConfig } from "neo4j-driver";
-import { filterTruthy } from "../../../utils/utils";
 import type { CDCQueryResponse } from "./cdc-types";
 
 export class CDCApi {
@@ -33,13 +32,15 @@ export class CDCApi {
     }
 
     /** Queries events since last call to queryEvents */
-    public async queryEvents(): Promise<CDCQueryResponse[]> {
+    public async queryEvents(labels?: string[]): Promise<CDCQueryResponse[]> {
         if (!this.cursor) {
             this.cursor = await this.fetchCurrentChangeId();
         }
 
         const cursorLiteral = new Cypher.Literal(this.cursor);
-        const queryProcedure = CDCProcedures.query(cursorLiteral);
+
+        const selectors = this.createQuerySelectors(labels);
+        const queryProcedure = Cypher.db.cdc.query(cursorLiteral, selectors);
 
         const events = await this.runProcedure<CDCQueryResponse>(queryProcedure);
         this.updateChangeIdWithLastEvent(events);
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ export class CDCApi {
     }
 
     private async fetchCurrentChangeId(): Promise<string> {
-        const currentProcedure = CDCProcedures.current();
+        const currentProcedure = Cypher.db.cdc.current();
 
         const result = await this.runProcedure<{ id: string }>(currentProcedure);
 
@@ -69,6 +70,25 @@ export class CDCApi {
         }
     }
 
+    private createQuerySelectors(labels: string[] | undefined): Cypher.Map[] {
+        if (labels) {
+            return labels.map(
+                (l) =>
+                    new Cypher.Map({
+                        select: new Cypher.Literal("n"),
+                        labels: new Cypher.Literal([l]),
+                    })
+            );
+        } else {
+            // Filters nodes
+            return [
+                new Cypher.Map({
+                    select: new Cypher.Literal("n"),
+                }),
+            ];
+        }
+    }
+
     private async runProcedure<T>(procedure: Cypher.Clause): Promise<T[]> {
         const { cypher, params } = procedure.build();
 
@@ -78,15 +98,3 @@ export class CDCApi {
         }) as T[];
     }
 }
-
-/** Wrapper of Cypher Builder for CDC */
-class CDCProcedures {
-    static current(): Cypher.Procedure {
-        return new Cypher.Procedure<"id">("cdc.current");
-    }
-
-    static query(from: Cypher.Expr, selectors?: Cypher.Expr): Cypher.Procedure {
-        const procedureParams = filterTruthy([from, selectors]);
-        return new Cypher.Procedure<"id" | "txId" | "seq" | "metadata" | "event">("cdc.query", procedureParams);
-    }
-}