python to service

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I have a simple example python script below that accepts an address and is trying to return the XY. My plan is to take this python script and create a tool and publish this to ArcGIS Server as a service I can then call the service and pass it the address parameter. THe code will run and set a variable to the XY location of the geocoded address. Great everything works.... How do I get that XY back to the user that is passing the address parameter? import arcpy # Geting user input for address searchAddress = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) # SEARCH PARAMETERS FROM SERVICE print "passed search address: " + searchAddress print "" # GEOCODERS geoCodeUrl = "https://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/GeocodeServer/findAddressCandidates" def singleAdressGeocode(address, geoCodeUrl, outSR = "26917"): ##clean up the address for url encoding address = address.replace(" ", "+") address = address.replace(",", "%3B") #send address to geocode service lookup = requests.get(geoCodeUrl + "?SingleLine=" + address + "&outSR=" + outSR + "&maxLocations=1&f=pjson") #get results to variable data = lookup.json() if data["candidates"]: return data else: ##no results return "Address not geocoded: " + address # CALL GEOCODER geocodeResult = singleAdressGeocode(searchAddress, geoCodeUrl) # GET RESULTS addressResult = geocodeResult["candidates"][0]["address"] coordinateX = geocodeResult["candidates"][0]["location"]["x"] coordinateY = geocodeResult["candidates"][0]["location"]["y"] strcoordinateX = str(coordinateX) strcoordinateY = str(coordinateY) # SHOW RESULTS print "gecode result: " + str(geocodeResult) print "-------------------" print "geocoded address: " + addressResult print "-------------------" print "X coordinate: " + str(coordinateX) print "-------------------" print "Y coordinate: " + str(coordinateY) print "-------------------" ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

jaykapalczynski · Accepted Answer

I set an output parameter in the python tool and then passed the value as such I had 3 input parameters and set the 4th to an output parameter...dont forget the index starts at 0 so the 4th would be 3 msg =("testing result value") arcpy.AddMessage(msg) resultMsg = msg arcpy.SetParameterAsText(3, resultMsg)‍‍‍‍