Storing a List in a Vertex using Gremlin and Azure Cosmos Graph - neo4j

Question

I am trying to store a list of changes made to a Vertex in the Vertex itself. Ideally I would want something like this:
{
"id": "95fcfa87-1c03-436d-b3ca-340cea926ee9",
"label": "person",
"type": "vertex",
"log": [{
"user": "user#user.dk",
"action": "update",
"timestamp": "22-03-2017",
"field": "firstName",
"oldValue": "Marco"
}
]
}
Using this method chain I am able to a achieve the following structure
graph.addV('person')
.property('firstName', 'Thomas')
.property(list, 'log', '22-03-2017')
.properties('log')
.hasValue('22-03-2017', '21-03-2017')
.property('user','user#user.dk')
.property('action', 'update')
.property('field', 'firstName')
.property('oldValue', 'Marco')
{
"id": "95fcfa87-1c03-436d-b3ca-340cea926ee9",
"label": "person",
"type": "vertex",
"properties": {
"firstName": [{
"id": "f23482a9-48bc-44e0-b783-3b74a2439a11",
"value": "Thomas"
}
],
"log": [{
"id": "5cfa35e1-e453-42e2-99b1-eb64cd853f22",
"value": "22-03-2017",
"properties": {
"user": "user#user.dk",
"action": "update",
"field": "firstName",
"oldValue": "Marco"
}
}
]
}
}
However this seems overly complex, as I will have to store a value and add properties to it.
Is it possible to add anonymous objects (i.e. without id and value) with the above mentioned data?

Answer 1

Not an actual solution to storing proper objects in a history log, but if you just use it as a log and don't have to access or query it by its properties, you could just put the serialised JSON in the value?
Something like along these lines should approximate the structure you're requesting:
dynamic entry = new JObject();
entry.user = "user#user.dk";
entry.action = "update";
entry.timestamp = "22-03-2017 12:34:56";
entry.field = "firstName";
entry.oldValue = "Marco";
graph.addV('person')
.property('firstName', 'Thomas')
.property(list, 'log', entry.ToString());
{
"id": "95fcfa87-1c03-436d-b3ca-340cea926ee9",
"label": "person",
"type": "vertex",
"properties": {
"firstName": [{
"id": "f23482a9-48bc-44e0-b783-3b74a2439a11",
"value": "Thomas"
}
],
"log": [{
"id": "5cfa35e1-e453-42e2-99b1-eb64cd853f22",
"value": "{\"user\":\"user#user.dk\",\"action\":\"update\",\"timestamp\":\"22-03-2017\",\"field\":\"firstName\",\"oldValue\":\"Marco\"}"
}
]
}
}
These log entries can easily be read, deserialised, used, and presented, but will not do much for queriability.