Schlagwort: GraphML

Create GraphML XML files that can be used in the yEd Graph Editor

In my article „Create GraphML XML file with Java“ I showed how to write a Graph to a GraphML-compatible XML file. Now I want to show you how you can write a GraphML-compatible file that can be used in the yEd Graph Editor to get visualized later.
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Create GraphML XML file with Java

With Blueprints it is very easy to create a XML file following the GraphML standard. All you need is this:

import com.tinkerpop.blueprints.pgm.Vertex;
import com.tinkerpop.blueprints.pgm.impls.tg.TinkerGraph;
import com.tinkerpop.blueprints.pgm.util.io.graphml.GraphMLWriter;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
 
public class App {
 
  private static final String OUTPUT_FILE = "./res/graph.graphml";
 
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(OUTPUT_FILE);
    TinkerGraph graph = new TinkerGraph();
 
    Vertex source = graph.addVertex("1");
    Vertex target = graph.addVertex("2");
    graph.addEdge("3", source, target, "connection");
 
    GraphMLWriter writer = new GraphMLWriter(graph);
    writer.outputGraph(out);
  }
}

This is what you will get then:

graph.graphml

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<graphml xmlns="http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns">
  <graph id="G" edgedefault="directed">
    <node id="2"></node>
    <node id="1"></node>
    <edge id="3" source="1" target="2" label="connection"></edge>
  </graph>
</graphml>

Export a GraphML graph as image with Java

In my post „How to parse GraphML files with a cool Java library“ I showed how to parse a GraphML XML file. In this post I want to show you, how you can visualize it. All you need is the yEd – Graph Editor and some extra markup in your XML file.
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How to parse GraphML files with a cool Java library

I’ve found this great GraphML reader and writer library: Blueprints. There is also a good documentation on how to use the GraphML library for reading XML-encoded graphs. Anyway, I think my example is better. 🙂
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