How to fetch a replica created asynchronously using the ArcGIS python API?

Question

Per the documentation,  create replica  can be called using

manager.create(title,ids,layer_queries=export_params, return_attachments=True, attachments_sync_direction = None, sync_direction=None, data_format='filegdb',asynchronous=True)

The response from this call is a job URL

How do you manage this process of monitoring the job for completion and then downloading the result?

I could use urllib3 requests but looking for a cleaner method

BenNadler · Answer

Thanks for the reply. I am using requests to do the same thing.

However, it would be nice if the ArcGIS API had something for this.

By "Cleaner" I mean a concise ArcGIS API method for this instead of using urllib and json.

Not to mention you have to throw a token call form gis._conf.token.

Seems like an omission to have a very clean method to call the create Replica but no way for the API to download it.

Maybe manager.job.status?

or manager.job.download?

simoxu · Answer

Not sure I correctly understand what you mean 'a cleaner method'. It seems to me you have to check the status manually to make sure the creation of the replica is completed before you can use it. The status are quite specific to replica creation in ArcGIS: "status": "" It's similar to submitting an asynchronous Geoprocessing request, so you can use the following code to get a jump start if you like. import urllib, json, time # the response of an asynchronous request is an url, now start checking the status submitJson = json.loads(submitResponse.read()) if 'jobId' in submitJson: jobID = submitJson['jobId'] status = submitJson['jobStatus'] jobUrl = taskUrl + "/jobs/" + jobID while status == "esriJobSubmitted" or status == "esriJobExecuting": print "checking to see if job is completed..." time.sleep(1) jobResponse = urllib.urlopen(jobUrl, "f=json") jobJson = json.loads(jobResponse.read()) if 'jobStatus' in jobJson: status = jobJson['jobStatus'] if status == "esriJobSucceeded": if 'results' in jobJson: resultsUrl = jobUrl + "/results/" resultsJson = jobJson['results'] for paramName in resultsJson.keys(): resultUrl = resultsUrl + paramName resultResponse = urllib.urlopen(resultUrl, "f=json") resultJson = json.loads(resultResponse.read()) print resultJson if status == "esriJobFailed": if 'messages' in jobJson: print jobJson['messages'] else: print "no jobId found in the response"‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Note: The above code snippet is from ESRI help: Using a geoprocessing service in Python scripts—Documentation | ArcGIS Enterprise Hope this is helpful