What exactly is the difference between manifest.json and manifest.xml. I mean both are a format for a service manifest but I thought JSON had replaced XML. Under what circumstances should I still be seeing XML when publishing map services to ArcGIS Server?
I'm using something like this to find data sources behind services and it bombed for any XML:
manifestPath <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> os<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>path<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>join<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>folder<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"extracted/manifest.json"</SPAN> <SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">if</SPAN> os<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>path<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>exists<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>manifestPath<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">with</SPAN> open<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>manifestPath<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'r'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">as</SPAN> f<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
text <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> f<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>read<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">else</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">print</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>folder<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"XML only"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
<SPAN class="keyword token">pass</SPAN>
manifestJSON <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> json<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>loads<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>text<SPAN
