From 78766b19c241795538836c85ef7b579ed4e3ab03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max De Marzi <maxdemarzi@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:08:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] discarding nil values, closes #23

---
 lib/neography/rest.rb              | 2 +-
 spec/integration/rest_node_spec.rb | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/neography/rest.rb b/lib/neography/rest.rb
index b6e8cc5..3242ec4 100644
--- a/lib/neography/rest.rb
+++ b/lib/neography/rest.rb
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ def get_root
 
       def create_node(*args)
         if args[0].respond_to?(:each_pair) && args[0] 
-          options = { :body => args[0].to_json, :headers => {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'} } 
+          options = { :body => args[0].delete_if { |k, v| v.nil? }.to_json, :headers => {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'} } 
           post("/node", options) 
         else
           post("/node") 
diff --git a/spec/integration/rest_node_spec.rb b/spec/integration/rest_node_spec.rb
index 49caadf..a338ba3 100644
--- a/spec/integration/rest_node_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/integration/rest_node_spec.rb
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@
       new_node["data"]["name"].should == "Max"
     end
 
+    it "can create a node with nil properties" do
+      new_node = @neo.create_node("name" => "Max", "age" => nil )
+      new_node["data"]["name"].should == "Max"
+      new_node["data"]["age"].should be_nil
+    end
+
+
     it "can create a node with more than one property" do
       new_node = @neo.create_node("age" => 31, "name" => "Max")
       new_node["data"]["name"].should == "Max"