Suggestion: check if a node is connected to an indirect specific node (e.g., high_value_target)

[A-acuto]

Hello,

In complex networks, it would be useful to know if a node is connected to another one in an indirect way.

The getter functions from network_interface, get_base_connected_nodes and get_current_connected_nodes, returns only (as far as I have understood) the nodes directly (edge =1) connected to an input node.

Instead the networkx function node_connectivity(input_graph, node_to_check, specific_node) returns all the possible paths that connects the node_to_check to a target_node (0 if there are none, 1/2/N depending on how many paths are present).
In this way it can be possible to check and count how many nodes are affected in case of the isolation of a gateway node to preserve a high_value_target or similar decisions.

Hope this helps,
Cheers,

[ChrisMcCarthyDev]

Hi @A-acuto,

Thank you for raising this suggestion. This has been added to the backlog of our internal issue tracker (Jira issue AIDT-123) as a community feature request. I will provide an update once we've had a chance to look into this.

Thanks again for your contributions to Yawning-Titan!

[ChrisMcCarthyDev]

Hi @A-acuto.

This has been reviewed and a ticket has been created on our product backlog.

[ChrisMcCarthyDev]

Thank you for raising this. This has been added to our internal backlog (reference 1222) and will be reviewed by one of the dev team soon.