"Overwrite" existing hosted Feature Service (AGOL)

JamesCrandall

The only example I can locate has to do with publishing/overwriting a Feature Service on ArcGIS Online via creating and pushing an SDDraft from an .mxd document.  http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2014/01/24/updating-your-hosted-feature-service-for-10-2/

I don't have an .mxd, I just have a File Geodatabase that I want to overwrite with.

I can:

1. Login

2. Access the Feature Service

Is there anyway to overwrite it when I grab that FS or am I just going to need to go the SDDraft route?

Thanks!

def findItem(sTitle, itemType, token):
    item = -1
    params = {'token': token, 'q': sTitle, 'f': 'json'}
    dat2 = urllib.urlencode(params)
    url = urljoin(AGOL, 'sharing/rest/search')
    r = urllib2.urlopen(url=url, data=dat2)

    if itemType is None:
        itemTypes = AGOLItemTypes
    else:
        itemTypes = [itemType]
    data = json.loads(r.read().decode('utf-8'))
    if len(data['results']) > 0:
        item = [item for item in data['results'] if item['title'] == sTitle and item['type'] in itemTypes][0]
   
    return item

def main():
    
    AGOLUser = username
    AGOLPassword = password
    token = gentoken(AGOLUser, AGOLPassword, 60)
    orgId = getOrganizationId(token)

    item = findItem('Name of Feature Service', 'Feature Service', token)
    if item is not None:
        print "item found"
        #I can see that I have grabbed the FS here

JamesCrandall

Melissa,

This issue has been resolved.  A couple of things to look into (there doesn't appear to be a single issue associated with this problem).

1. You must use an .mxd to reference for creating the .sd an d.sddraft documents.

2. You must use the actual .mxd used in the original publishing event to AGOL.

3. The script/codebase should reference the .mxd saved on C:\ somewhere.

One or a combination of these three items allowed us to successfully "Overwrite" an existing hosted Feature Service on our enterprise AGOL.

Hope that helps!