[Developers] More information on '/type/reflect'

[John Giannandrea]

Sumit wrote:
> My subject, Peter Jackson, a New Zealand national and a  
> screenwriter, is married to Fran Walsh and works for Weta Digital.  
> However if I try the generic query with these names rather than 'new  
> zealand' or 'screenwriter' I don't get down to the subject. Fran  
> Walsh and Weta Digital do not appear to be linked directly to Peter  
> Jackson, it looks like there is a relation 'spouse' or 'employer'  
> which has a value.

This in general is called the CVT problem.  Some relationships have an  
additional object modeling the relationship.    Its possible to query  
for any link to any object with any link and so on, but you need to  
know which links you want to do this for.   We have some code that can  
do this in general, but if you know which specific links you are  
trying to follow its easier.

Could you describe some more what you are trying to do, from an  
application perspective, and then perhaps we can steer you in a  
specific query direction...

-jg


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