Graph Tool looks like a great comprehensive library. I am very new to it and
sorry, in advance, if this question or something similar has been answered
before. I had a good search and couldn't find a solution.
I am creating directed graphs and would like to search those graphs for
subgraphs that have corresponding labels on their vertices and edges. I then
would like to cut those subgraphs out, potentially make additional copies,
then paste those subgraphs attached by edges to different vertices of the
remain graph.
So for example in the following code:
I would like to take subgraphs of g1 that match h including edge labels. I
know i can find these subgraphs using:
I then might like to paste that subgraph in a way to create a new graph g2
that might look like:
Please ignore the the fact I have used multiple calls to add_edge_list() to
generate these example graphs. This is just an artifact of creating the
above example. In my real use case I will just be presented with a random
vertex/edge labelled graph.
There is no special function to achieve this; you have to implement it using
the basic API. But it is simple: just extract the list of edges in the
subgraph, construct a vertex-to-vertex mapping that amounts to your
"pasting", translate the edge endpoints accordingly, and add the translated
edges to your graph.
Thanks for your suggestion. I guess I had already considered that but think I
might be missing something obvious. How do I get links to the actual
vertices from the property map that subgraph_isomorphism() returns?
For example, I tried this:
<code>
sgs = subgraph_isomorphism(h, g1, ...)
for vi in sgs[0]:
g1.remove_vertex(g1.vertex(vi))
</code>
but this deletes vertices in g1 based on index and this index appears to
alter after deleting the 1st subgraph so might not behave correctly on
deleting a 2nd subgraph.
Also how would I create a vertex-to-vertex mapping of the subgraph (sgs[0])
while retaining the edges? What type of mapping is this? Perhaps there's an
example or specific function that might help? I have read most of relevant
documentation but it's still not very clear to me
Actually I think I know what you might be suggesting. In my example use the
actual subgraph "h" and copy that where I need it. Just deleting the
vertices that the property map provides from the subgraph_isomorphism()
function. I'll give that go, thanks.
