Hello,
Can Graphics Layers be Queried? I cannot see anywhere that says that they cannot.
I know that CSV Layers cannot be queried.
Thanks,
Chris
In the 4.xyz API a layer view can be queried for a graphics layer the same way you would query the layer view for a feature layer:
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You could pass a Query into layerView.queryFeatures with an extent geometry and the 'intersects' spatial relationship to query for features inside an extent. See Query | API Reference | ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.3 for more details.
If you're using the 3.xyz API, my bet would be that you could easily write a query method yourself by accessing each graphic in a graphics layer and using the geometry engine to test each one. This is not an approach that scales especially well. I'm not sure if layerView.queryFeatures scales very well either.
Hi @RyanSutcliffe , did you manage to get this to work for querying a GraphicsLayer? Would you be open to sharing a code snippet? Thank you very much!
Taking a second look this morning I see how you can take a collection of graphics and set them as a source for a new FeatureLayer. That way you have access to queryFeatures and related functionality. I thought that a FeatureLayer required a REST endpoint or Map/FeatureService as it's source.
I could be wrong but I don't see how you can get a LayerView class from a GraphicsLayer. Seems a GraphicsLayer creates a GraphicsLayerView which only has queryGraphics(). The example and link above works only for a FeatureLayer. If either of you were indeed able to do the above would love to see a code sample of how you got this: specifically a LayerView from a GraphicsLayer in a map.
Thank you all for the feedback!
Chris,
The simple answer is No. But you could manually query the GL by looping through it's graphics and checking the graphics attributes.
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