Introduction

The TigerGraph™ system uses the well-known Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture to manage communication with the TigerGraph core components, the Graph Processing Engine (GPE) and Graph Storage Engine (GSE). REST++ (or RESTPP) is the TigerGraph customized REST server. (See Figure 1 below) When an upper layer component, such as the Platform Web UI or GSQL, wishes to access the graph engine, it sends a request to the REST++ server. Users can also communicate directly with the REST++ server, either by using one of the standard REST APIs included with the system, or by authoring and then employing a custom endpoint API. This document describes the APIs for the built-in endpoints, which provides methods for basic querying and manipulation of the graph data.

Like most RESTful systems, REST++ employs the HTTP protocol (specifically HTTP/1.1 without request pipelining). Accordingly, REST APIs feature request methods and URLs, response status codes, and data responses. This guide describes the request methods and URLs used to query, update, and delete from the graph data. It also describes the format of the data responses.

The TigerGraph REST APIs employ three HTTP request methods:

  • GET is used to request data.

  • POST is used to send data.

  • DELETE is used to delete data.

If the user submits an unsupported HTTP method, the API will return an error message: "endpoint not found".

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