shell> curl -X POST --data-binary @- --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/graph/graph/vertex
{ 
  "_key" : "v1", 
  "optional1" : "val1" 
}

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
etag: 1259890134

{ 
  "vertex" : { 
    "_id" : "vertices/v1", 
    "_key" : "v1", 
    "_rev" : "1259890134", 
    "optional1" : "val1" 
  }, 
  "error" : false, 
  "code" : 202 
}