Delete features and error 504 and timed out

NickShannon2

I'm attempting to apply delete feature to a very large dataset in AGOL & it's timing out. 

The dataset is a polygon feature class. 

I can't use truncate because the feature class is sync enabled. 

Couple of questions:

1.  What is the maximum number of records the ArcGIS API can handle for delete and append functions — 10,000 records? 

2.  Any python tips and tricks  to make this happen? 

I'm new to python, so please provide scripts with comments 🙂 

 

 

 

 

import arcpy
import arcgis
from arcgis.gis import GIS
from arcgis.features import FeatureLayer

gis = GIS("https://xyz.arcgis.com", username="xyz", password="xyz")

feature_layer_item = gis.content.search('7a4b389c86f74ab8bd8da440e1a87db4', item_type = 'Feature Service')[0]
flayers = feature_layer_item.layers
flayer = flayers[0]
flayer.delete_features(where="OBJECTID >= 0")

 

 

 

 

NickShannon2

Thanks @HenryLindemann — this script is a big improvement over my original script. 

However, while the script doesn't time-out with a warning message — it does not delete all records.  For example, my dataset has 600k rows, the tunk_data script deletes 450k rows leaving 150k.  I have to click 'run' a few times to successfully delete all records. 

Any ideas how to fix this? 

I'm running the script using Juptyer Notebooks.