Not Able to Get Service Layers From ArcGIS API for Python

BHK

I am trying to get list of Layers from a Service using this code

 

from arcgis.gis import GIS
from arcgis.gis.server import Server
from arcgis.features import FeatureLayerCollection

gis_servers = gis.admin.servers.list()
server1 = gis_servers[0]
fservices = server1.services.list(folder='GDPServices')

for service in fservices:
        layer = FeatureLayerCollection(service.url)
        print(layer)

 

but I am  receiving this error message 

 

AttributeError: 'PropertyMap' instance has no attribute 'layers'

 

Can you please let me know why this is happening and how I can fix this?

EarlMedina

The problem here is that you're getting the admin url for those services (which is not what you want to be using). They come back in the format: https://server.domain.com/server/admin/services/serviceName.MapServer

If you're not doing any Server administration then it would be better to just use gis.content, I'd say.

However, if you must stick with the Server submodule, then I think you can do so by changing your code to:

 

 

server1 = gis_servers[0]
fservices = server1.content.list(folder='GDPServices')

 

 

 

There is a catch - content.list doesn't have filtering built in beyond the folder and will try to initialize objects (this may be a slow process) from the services for you. So, unless you are certain all you have in there are Feature Services, I would recommend setting the as_dict param to True and getting only what  you need:

server.content.list(folder="Hosted", as_dict=True)

 

This adds extra work as you will need to filter for feature services and then concatenate the expected urls from the services directory url and content urls. So again, unless there's a reason you need to be using the Server submodule, probably using gis.content is going to be easier for whatever you're doing.