No result with Cypher after batchinserting with indexing - neo4j

Question

I'm very new to neo4j. I've read this question (Cypher Query not finding Node) but it does not work. I'm getting the error, the the auto_node_index was not found. Perhaps it is because I'm using the BatchInserter?
For my experiment, I'm using neo4j 1.8.2 and the programming language Java with the embedded database.
I want to put some data to the database using the BatchInserter and the BatchInserterIndex like explained on http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/milestone/batchinsert.html.
BatchInserter myInserter = BatchInserters.inserter(DB_PATH);
BatchInserterIndexProvider indexProvider =
new LuceneBatchInserterIndexProvider( myInserter );
BatchInserterIndex persons =
indexProvider.nodeIndex( "persons", MapUtil.stringMap( "type", "exact" ) );
persons.setCacheCapacity( "name", 10000 );
First I read the data from a TGF-file, create the nodes and put it to the inserter like this:
properties = MapUtil.map("name", actualNodeName, "birthday", birthdayValue);
long node = myInserter.createNode(properties);
nodes.add(node);
persons.flush();
The insert works fine, but when I want to search a node with Cypher, the result is empty
ExecutionEngine engine = new ExecutionEngine( db );
String query =
"start n=node:persons(name='nameToSearch') "
+ " match n-[:KNOWS]->m "
+ " return n.id, m ";
ExecutionResult result = engine.execute( query );
System.out.println(result);
On the other side, when I'm using the Traverser-class and start the search on the rootnode, I receive the nodes wich are connetced by the node with the name "nameToSearch".
Can anybody explain me, why I can't get the nodes with Cypher!
here is the complete method for the batch insert:
public long batchImport() throws IOException{
String actualLine;
ArrayList<Long> nodes = new ArrayList<Long>();
Map<String,Object> properties = new HashMap<String,Object>();
//delete all nodes and edges in the database
FileUtils.deleteRecursively(new File(DB_PATH ));
BatchInserter myInserter = BatchInserters.inserter(DB_PATH);
BatchInserterIndexProvider indexProvider =
new LuceneBatchInserterIndexProvider( myInserter );
BatchInserterIndex persons =
indexProvider.nodeIndex( "persons", MapUtil.stringMap( "type", "exact" ) );
persons.setCacheCapacity( "name", 10000 );
long execTime = 0;
try{
//Get the file which contains the graph informations
FileReader inputFile = new FileReader(UtilFunctions.searchFile(new File(PATH_OUTPUT_MERGED_FILES), "nodesAndEdges").get(0));
LineNumberReader inputLine = new LineNumberReader(inputFile);
// Read nodes up to symbol #
execTime = System.nanoTime();
while ((actualLine=inputLine.readLine()).charAt(0) != '#'){
StringTokenizer myTokenizer = new StringTokenizer(actualLine);
// Read node number
String actualNodeNumber = myTokenizer.nextToken();
// Read node name
String actualNodeName = myTokenizer.nextToken() + " " + myTokenizer.nextToken();
//Read property
myTokenizer.nextToken();
String actualNodePropertyKey = BIRTHDAY_KEY;
String actualNodePropertyValue = myTokenizer.nextToken();
actualNodePropertyValue = actualNodePropertyValue.substring(1, actualNodePropertyValue.length()-1);
// Insert node information
properties = MapUtil.map("name", actualNodeName, "birthday", actualNodePropertyValue, "id", actualNodeNumber);
long node = myInserter.createNode(properties);
nodes.add(node);
persons.flush();
}
// Read edges up to end of file
int countEdges = 0;
while ((actualLine=inputLine.readLine()) != null){
StringTokenizer myTokenizer = new StringTokenizer(actualLine);
// Read start node number
String actualStartNodeNumber = myTokenizer.nextToken();
// Read destination node number
String actualDestinationNodeNumber = myTokenizer.nextToken();
// Read relationship type
String actualRelType = myTokenizer.nextToken();
// Insert node information into ArrayList
int positionStartNode = Integer.parseInt(actualStartNodeNumber);
int positionDestinationNode = Integer.parseInt(actualDestinationNodeNumber);
properties.clear();
if (countEdges == 0) {
myInserter.createRelationship(0, nodes.get(positionStartNode-1), RelType.ROOT, properties);
myInserter.createRelationship(nodes.get(positionStartNode-1), nodes.get(positionDestinationNode-1), RelType.KNOWS, properties);
}
else
{
myInserter.(nodes.get(positionStartNode-1), nodes.get(positionDestinationNode-1), RelType.KNOWS, properties);
}
countEdges++;
}
indexProvider.shutdown();
myInserter.shutdown();
execTime = System.nanoTime() - execTime;
// Close input file
inputLine.close();
inputFile.close();
}
catch (Throwable e){
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
}
return execTime;
}

Answer 1

Your lacks a call to profiles.add(node, <indexProperties>). Therefore you're never adding anything to the index.

Answer 2

It is crucial that the code using Batchinserter API calls shutdown() on both the BatchInserterIndexProvider and BatchInserter. Maybe you've missed this in your code.
If this does not solve the problem, please post your code.