Programmatically publishing a feature service from an existing one

KennethGorton

How do you programmatically publishing a new feature service from an existing one?

In my app I would like to enable users with appropriate privileges to publish a new feature service by using an existing feature service url.

I use a network request which partially looks like this:

NetworkRequest {

id: createServiceNetworkRequest

method: "POST"

url: portalUrl + "/sharing/rest/content/users/" + username + "/publish"

responseType: "json"

The body of the request looks something like this:

{"access":"","description":"","f":"json","fileType":"featureService","itemid":"<<itemid of source feature service>>","name":"My New Feature Service","publishParameters":{"sourceUrl":"<<url to source feature service>>},"snippet":"A new feature service","tags":"my tag","token":"<<my valid token>>"}

But the response comes back as follows: 

"{\"error\":{\"code\":400,\"message\":\"Unable to publish item.\",\"details\":[\"'publishParameters' must be specified.\"]}}"

Clearly I am not forming the request correctly. Or perhaps there is an entirely different means to this end? How should I be doing this?

Thanks,

Ken

KennethGorton

Ok It turned out to be a simple fix to what is probably a noob problem. I originally built the body parameter of the NetworkRequest as json and passed it in send(body). This never gave me problems with other NetworkRequests but for each of those I construct body parameters of flat json. This one has nested json, but by calling send(JSON.stringify(body)) it completes successfully.

Ken