Create View of Hosted Feature Service using Python API

Anonymous User

Has anyone used the Python API to create Views of a hosted feature service on ArcGIS Online?

I have a hosted feature service (type = feature layer collection) and want to automate creation of Views. The arcgis.gis module has a method called create_service with an optional parameter to specify if the service is a View. 

I've tested this on a dummy feature service. See the python below that results in an error ('Item' object has no attribute 'create_service'). 

from arcgis.gis import GIS

from arcgis.gis import ContentManager
mygis = GIS("https://www.arcgis.com", "username", "password")
GMitem = mygis.content.get('itemID')

GMitem.create_service(name = "GM_COPY_Reg1",is_view = TRUE)

MicahBabinski

Hi Mitch,

I haven't actually used the ArcGIS Python API yet (I really need to get on that!). However, from the API docs it appears that the create_service is a method that is called on an instance of the ContentManager class. See the description for the ContentManager class:

Helper class for managing content in ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise. This class is not created by users directly. An instance of this class, called ‘content’, is available as a property of the GIS object. Users call methods on this ‘content’ object to manipulate (create, get, search, etc) items.

So it sounds like the last line of code maybe should actually be:

mygis<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>create_service<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>name <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"GM_COPY_Reg1"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN>is_view <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="token boolean">True</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

Also, just a note on your syntax: the is_view parameter should probably be title case, not all caps. I think Python will only recognize a boolean as "True" and not "true" or "TRUE".

Hope this helps,

Micah