Type mismatch error when using apoc.cypher.runFirstColumn

[johnymontana]

There seems to be a bug when passing parameters to apoc.cypher.runFirstColumn.

For example, this works as expected:

RETURN apoc.cypher.runFirstColumn("MATCH (a) RETURN COUNT(a)", {}, True)

However this

MATCH (a) 
WITH a LIMIT 1 
RETURN a { .* , degree: apoc.cypher.runFirstColumn("WITH {this} AS this MATCH (this)-->() RETURN COUNT (*) {limit}", {this: a, first: 3, offset: 0, limit: 5}, false) }

results in the following error:

Neo.ClientError.Procedure.ProcedureCallFailed: Failed to invoke function `apoc.cypher.runFirstColumn`: Caused by: org.neo4j.cypher.internal.util.v3_4.SyntaxException: Invalid input '{': expected whitespace, comment, '.', node labels, '[', "=~", IN, STARTS, ENDS, CONTAINS, IS, '^', '*', '/', '%', '+', '-', '=', "<>", "!=", '<', '>', "<=", ">=", AND, XOR, OR, AS, ',', GRAPHS, SOURCE GRAPH [AS <name>], TARGET GRAPH [AS <name>], GRAPH AT <graph-url> [AS <name>], GRAPH OF <pattern> [AS <name>], GRAPH, GRAPH <graph-ref> [AS <name>], >>, ORDER, SKIP, LIMIT, LOAD CSV, FROM, INTO, START, MATCH, UNWIND, MERGE, CREATE GRAPH >>, CREATE >> GRAPH, CREATE GRAPH, CREATE, SET, DELETE GRAPHS, DELETE, REMOVE, FOREACH, WITH, CALL, PERSIST, RELOCATE, RETURN, SNAPSHOT, UNION, ';' or end of input (line 1, column 156 (offset: 155))

This was noticed when using the neo4j-graphql-js integration. See neo4j-graphql/neo4j-graphql-js#53