creating a filter (query?)

Question

I am using esri's feature service and ersi-leaflet library to display my map.  The following code snippet is used to display

the countries

featureURL = "http://dev.xyz.org/arcgis/rest/services/MEP/noRelate_tester/FeatureServer/0"

var countries = L.esri.featureLayer(featureURL,

{

style: getStyle,

onEachFeature: onEachFeature

}).addTo(map);

At this time, it is displaying all the countries.

I'd like to display (or highlight) only the countries that satisfies a certain filter or query.

For example, I want to display only the countries that satisfy the filter/query type = SDG.

I reviewed the docs and examples for esri-leaflet library but am totally lost as to how use the query method.

Can someone point me to an example that show how to use the filter/query to do the above

Thanks

Chris

JohnGravois · Answer

instead of fetching all the features from the service and filtering on the client, it's a better to only ask ArcGIS Online/Server for the features you want (using the where constructor option).

L.esri.featureLayer({  url: "http://sampleserver6.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/Census/MapServer/3",  where: "STATE_NAME = 'Kansas'",}).addTo(map);

Querying features | Esri Leaflet

WinstonHoyle · Answer

The query method has examples on Esri Leaflet. Example 1: https://esri.github.io/esri-leaflet/examples/querying-feature-layers-1.html Example 2: https://esri.github.io/esri-leaflet/examples/querying-feature-layers-2.html From Esri Leaflet Issues, I found a problem similar to yours. Since you pass a GeoJSON feature you have access to attributes, like the "filter" attribute. function filter(feature) { return feature.properties.type === "SDG"; } var countries = L.esri.featureLayer(featureURL,{ filter: filter, style: getStyle, onEachFeature: onEachFeature }).addTo(map);‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Issue #214: https://github.com/Esri/esri-leaflet/issues/214