Deleting a neo4j node along with its relationships through java core API

Question

My objective is to delete a node along with all its relationships in a single shot in neo4j graph database.

So far, I have been following this approach,

• Get all the relationships(BOTH direction) for a node
• delete the relationships
• finally delete the node.

Is this the standard approach or anything else available? I don't intend to use Cypher query for this. I want to achieve this through Java core API itself.

Answer 1

when using java API the described steps are correct:

 try (Transaction tx = graphDb.beginTx()) {
     Node node = // my node to delete     
     for (Relationship r : node.getRelationships()) {
         r.delete();
     }
     node.delete();
     tx.success();
 }