neo4j-shell support about docker-neo4j

[benbc]

Hello @ekkis. This is a good idea -- we'll try to get it in soon. In the meantime, are you able to use docker exec --interactive <container> bin/neo4j-shell as a workaround?

[ekkis]

there are other workarounds but I would like to see this implemented

[benbc]

@ekkis I'm sorry, but this isn't possible without changing the way the Neo4j shell itself works. I see that you've been discussing this on StackOverflow and I'm afraid that we don't have any clever answers here.

Are you able to use cycli, an alternative shell that uses the standard Neo4j APIs?

[ekkis]

I haven't looked at cycli but I'll take a look. why isn't it as simple as opening the port?

[benbc]

Because the Neo4j Shell uses RMI as a transport. By default RMI negotiates a connection over the configured port (1337 in this case) and then opens an arbitrary high port for the actual communication; we can't know ahead of time what that port is, so we can't instruct Docker to open it.

[ekkis]

makes sense. pity that.