The ArcGIS Server REST API, short for Representational State Transfer, provides a simple, open Web interface to services hosted by ArcGIS Server. All resources and operations exposed by the REST API are accessible through a hierarchy of endpoints or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for each GIS ...

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How to create a drop-down list of geoprocessing tasks?

I need to construct a drop down menu with each choice enabling a different geoprocessing task to run over my script. <select id="myList" onchange="environment()"> ...
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Executing GP Task for JavaScript API

I just recently started using JavaScript API in attempt to construct a web app. After taking a recent ESRI online course, I thought I had some base knowledge on how to do this. This geoprocessing ...
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Hiding Rest Service Url in Javascript

While users using my application, they can view resource from browser and see my arcgis rest service URLs. So If I use token based security, security token can view. Can I hide this from users?
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returning exceptions to user via AGS REST

I've got a python script that I run as a standalone and as a gp service in AGS (moving to 10.1 now...). For the standalone execution, I'm throwing a custom exception if there is no data found based on ...
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How to parse ArcGIS output XML?

I have a use case in which I need to parse the XML generated by an ArcGIS server, then push that data to another API. The ArcGIS server sits behind the firewall at our customer's site and exposes a ...
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How to identify parameters sent from ArcMap to geoprocessing service on ArcGIS Server?

I have a question regarding the use of ESRI geoprocessing services and maybe some of you can give me a hint for the following "problem"... I have set up a geoprocessing service which should solve a ...
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How to share a hosted feature service with an application on ArcGIS Online?

According to the ESRI REST API documentation on authentication, a registered application can log in to AGOL via an App ID and App Secret and will then have access to the data that has been shared with ...
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ArcGIS Vehicle Routing Problem Service via REST

I am trying to get a Vehicle Routing Problem to work as a geoprocessing service on one of our servers. I used the default_date with unix time stamp in miliseconds and set the times of orders and ...
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Call Vehicle Routing Problem Service via REST - Problem with “time” attributes?

I am trying to get a Vehicle Routing Problem to work as a geoprocessing service on one of our servers. If I call the geoprocessing service via REST url and submit depots, orders and routes WITHOUT ...
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Where can I find more details about rasterFunctions?

I have published an Image service with ArcGIS Server 10, containing the results of an interpolation operation. The Image which is returned from the service is in greyscale. I wish to render it with ...
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Error code 500: Geoprocessing Task Failed [closed]

I am calling a custom Geoprocessing tool from a Silverlight application. This GP tool throws below error: { "error": { "code": 500, "message": "Error Executing Task. The given key was not ...
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ESRI AddFeatures call on rest endpoint with attributes

I can add a line feature via the rest endpoint with my hand crafted call from C#. However, if i add any attributes to the call it will fail and say unable to perform operation. All of the fields in ...
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CORS lets one ArcGIS JavaScript (REST) request through but not the other

I have a problem with Cross-Origin-Requests invoked by the ArcGIS Javascript API. I'm able to access my web app without any issues if I use localhost:8080. But a REST call (by the ArcGIS JS API) ...
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Call ArcGIS Server Buffer command without using SOM

All, I wanted to see what the best way was of calling the geometry service to carry out a Buffer operation on ArcGIS Server 10, without using the SOM. Ideally I want to consume the REST API, using a ...
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ArcGIS Feature Service - Return a Single Row / Record

Is it possible to get just one row/record returned from a feature service query -- similar to the TOP, ROWNUM and LIMIT in database queries? Of course, OBJECTID "1" is not guaranteed. Is there a trick ...
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Access geoprocessing service via REST, get JSON back

I have an ArcGIS Server 10.0 geoprocessing task with a REST endpoint something like this: http://server/arcgis/rest/services/MyService/GPServer/MyTask The task takes a parameter. I was hoping I could ...
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Query ArcGIS REST API for all attachments in a feature service

Our application retrieves features from an arcGIS service and stores information (goegraphy, attributes, attachments) on them in our application database. When the time comes to check what's new and ...
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How to find the polygon containing a given coordinate using ArcGIS Geometry Service?

Say I have an ArcGIS Server GeometryService running, and a map service containing ZIP code polygons (all ArcGIS 10.1). I want to pass a coordinate, and have it return which ZIP code contains that ...
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Programmatic authentication to ArcGIS Server secured layers via RESTful API

I have an ArcGIS 10.1 Server instance exposing secured mapservices on the Internet. My need is to code down a client application (which I am currently building using the 3.3 version of the ArcGIS ...
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How to Query Layer using ArcGIS REST Services for Records with Date Closed Field less than 24 hours ago?

I am current trying to do layer definitions on a map and so I am trying to filter some records via a time factor so i was writing in the Where field DATE_CLOSED_ON > (CURRENT_TIME - 24) and ...
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Is it possible to save multi ring polygons to the ArcGIS server REST API?

I'm trying to insert new polygons that the user has drawn through the addFeatures REST endpoint and I'm getting an error when the user draws a bow-tie and tries to insert it. Is this simply not ...
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ESRI JSON-thingie from ArcGIS online

I try to download a web map from arcgis online into arcgis desktop. From the site I get a file named item.pkginfo and arcgis desktop opens it. Unfortunately it only gets me the basemap image and not ...
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Is it possible to add a field to ArcGIS Map Service without feature access?

I have published a mapservice without feature access on a remote machine only with a file geodatabase (shapefile on the disk). Because of limits of authority to create a spatial database(don't have ...
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How do I determine appropriate Date query syntax for a layer?

I'm writing a web mapping query tool to query Esri mapservice layers by date using the REST API. It has been said that the syntax depends on what kind of database is behind the mapservice layer, as ...
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Spatial Rendering using ArcGIS Restful APIs

Always when I read the documentation, I always hear the term Restful APIs and ArcGIS Server using Restful Service to render the mxd hosted on the server. I am a bit unclear about what exactly does ...
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ArcGIS REST export map features as geoJSON

Is it possible to export the features from a map as geoJSON using an ArcGIS REST service? I'm trying to make a vector layer in OpenLayers based on the output from the map's present view based on a ...
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ArcGIS Server REST-Query Layer: only few attribute fileds are returned in response

a newbie question in using ArcGIS Server REST service: from ArcGIS Services Directory, I opened the page of one layer in a MapServer service, this layer has a long list of attributes/fields. however, ...
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How to create mapping application with user input to dynamically weight/shade map layers

Does anyone know of any examples of web-apps that allow user-input to change variable weights used to calculate symbology? My organization is looking to build a dynamic mapping application and while ...
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ArcGIS server 9.3.1 Javascript API via REST : Transparency issue

I have two map services , one is tiled service returns a satellite image , and the other is dynamic displays the roads ,POIs and Parcels. I'm trying to make the dynamic one shows the roads only above ...
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How to perform datum transformation in ArcGIS server REST API exportmap

I have a ArcGIS server 10.0 mapcontext in one projection (swedish grid sweref99 TM) which uses its own datum, also named Sweref99 . When I use the REST API's map service export function I want to ...
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Using a ArcGIS Server Feature Service's addFeature method: Parameters?

I am wanting to post data back to a feature service using the addFeatures method on a feature service. Here it says to use a query and an esri rep says to use a query task. But my "Query" object ...
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How do you programmatically determine if a layer supports the query capability via the ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 REST API?

I am using ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 SP 1. I want to be able to determine the capabilities of each published layer, specifically I am looking for all layers with query capabilities. Being familiar with ...
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arcgis server & reverse proxy server

internet -- router -- reverse proxy server -- arcgis server Had this config. working great, after following this proxy server setup tutorial: ...
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How to send long JSON objects (polygon geometry, table rows) in POST request to Geoprocessing Service?

I am seeking to understand my options for sending long JSON objects in a request to a Geoprocessing Service. In particular, I am looking for some example code to illustrate how to include two long ...
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ArcGis Rest – service name vs. folder - Are the folders always part of the service name?

I'm using an ArcGIS REST map service, and my question is how do I construct the URL to the service? Specifically, what relationship is there between the Service Name, the Test Server, and the folder ...
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How to let ArcGIS Server see related records in a geodatabase

I have an ArcSDE geodatabase which contains multiple relationship classes. If I add this layer to ArcMap, the relationship is automatically applied (eg, the Identify dialog allows me to drill-down to ...
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How to navigate the REST endpoints and retrieve Field information programatically

I'm adding a Dynamic Map Service to an ArcGIS Server JavaScript API map, and I need to get hold of each component layer and its fields, so I can run a query. See the sample ArcGIS Server services ...
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Struggling with ArcGIS REST API and tokens

I'm doing my best to secure my AGS (9.3.1) services, but have struggled with tokens. As you can see, my nw account belongs to the agsadmin and agsusers roles: I have assigned these same roles to my ...
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Is it possible to find the Map Services URLs used in ArcGIS Flex or Silverlight web applications?

With the ArcGIS Server JavaScript API, you can find the URLs in the map services in the source code. Do the Flex and Silverlight APIs completely obfuscate the map services URLs? As an example, the ...
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Filter features with multi-table joins in ESRI Silverlight/REST API

We have a rather involved data warehouse (SDE 9.3.1 / Oracle 11g) that contains a single related point feature class. Our (analytical) application should allow users to construct complex, ad hoc ...
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How to handle 500 Internal Server Error with ESRI Silverlight API

I have a simple AGS map service. I accidentally specified an invalid SRID explicitly in my Silverlight XAML: <esri:Map x:Name="Map" IsLogoVisible="False"> <esri:Map.Extent> ...