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Building Web and Mobile ArcGIS Server Applications with JavaScript ??? Second Edition

You're reading from   Building Web and Mobile ArcGIS Server Applications with JavaScript ??? Second Edition Build exciting custom web and mobile GIS applications with the ArcGIS Server API for JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280526
Length 324 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Eric Pimpler Eric Pimpler
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Preface 1. Introduction to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Maps and Adding Layers 3. Adding Graphics to the Map 4. The Feature Layer 5. Using Widgets and Toolbars 6. Performing Spatial and Attribute Queries 7. Identifying and Finding Features 8. Turning Addresses into Points and Points into Addresses 9. Directions and Routing 10. Geoprocessing Tasks 11. Geometry Operations 12. Integration with ArcGIS Online 13. Creating Mobile Applications 14. Looking Ahead - Version 4 of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript

Creating the FeatureLayer

The FeatureLayer must reference a layer from either a map service or a feature service. Use a map service if you just want to retrieve geometries and attributes from the server and symbolize them yourself. Use a feature service if you want to take advantage of symbols from the service's source map document. Also, use a feature service if you plan on performing web-based editing with the FeatureLayer. Feature layers honor any feature editing templates configured in the source map document.

The following code example shows how to create a FeatureLayer using its constructor. With tiled and dynamic layers, you simply provide a pointer to the REST endpoint of a map service, but with the FeatureLayer, you need to point to a specific layer in the service. In the following code example, we are creating a FeatureLayer from the first layer in the service...

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