Network Analyst Libraries for ArcGIS Enterprise SDK

Question

Hi Team,

We are using Custom SOE which developed using Arc Object 10.8. This make use of Network Analyst Libraries in Arc Object Farmwork. We are trying to move our ArcGIS Enterprise to latest version, but we don't have option to re-develop the Custom SOE using ArcGIS Enterprise SDK since it is missing Network Analyst Extension Libraries. I would like to know whether it will be added with upcoming updates of the ArcGIS Enterprise SDK or not? What is the timeline?

Thanks for your help

Regards,

Rajaram

FrankK · Answer

Regarding "could you please confirm that SOE for network analyst is not option anymore", that is correct the Enterprise SDK no exposes network analyst functionality (it still exposes some network dataset functionality).

As for your questions after that, can you expand on what you are attempting to do?

RajaramRamachetty · Answer

Hi Team,

Thanks a lot for the information. As you already know that Main difference between GP service and SOE / SOI is that speed. We need Custom API that take single location input and give custom output faster (now less than a second for US network dataset), so we are using SOE for that. We also have GP service for Bulk process separately.

could you please confirm that SOE for network analyst is not option anymore? Since it will take lot of effort to find and build alternate for this.

I have plan to publish the network analyst service and then build SOI on top to customize the input and output, will it work? Since we are using Closest Facility function of network analyst, as you know we need to give incident and facility to input, for huge dataset like US give facility for even 2mile buffer is huge load when we are sending it through web API, so tradition closest facility API don't work. Please share your opinion. Thanks again for your support, I really appreciate your support.

Regards,

Rajaram

ShareUser · Answer

You are correct the latest ArcGIS Enterprise SDK no longer includes the network analyst extension libraries. There is no plan to add these back. The path forward to implement similar functionality is to create a geoprocessing service. A developers summit presentation discussing using geoprocessing services as a replacement for SOE's is at the links below.

video https://mediaspace.esri.com/media/t/1_99a6izdh (disscuion re geoprocessing services starts at about 27 min)
slides https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b8df1b3acc7c4ca3a08419ddb1df6aa6