Filtering Views from collection of hosted feature layers

Dirk_Vandervoort

Greeting fellow travellers:

I am querying my portal for feature service types. By default it returns the hosted feature layer and the views on the hosted feature layer. I would like to do something with the hosted feature layers and ignore the hosted feature layer views. Code looks like this:

    the_query = "type:Feature Service"
    some_content = gis.content.search(query=the_query, max_items=10000, outside_org=False)
    for a_layer in some_content:
        # do something if it's a hosted feature layer, ignore it if it's a view

 How do I get just the layers and ignore the views?

Thanks in advance, please and thank you.

EarlMedina

There are two ways you can do this. Both rely on typeKeywords. When you create a View, I believe a type keyword is automatically attached to it (this is true in the UI, at least).

You can do something like this with your query string to filter out views:

the_query = "NOT typekeywords:View Service AND owner:youruser"

 

 

Or, in your loop you can use Item.typeKeywords to isolate views if you need to do further manipulations. The typeKeywords property for a view should be equal to a list like so:

['ArcGIS Server',
 'Data',
 'Feature Access',
 'Feature Service',
 'Service',
 'Singlelayer',
 'Hosted Service',
 'View Service']

 

So, you can do: if  "View Service" in item.typeKeywords do this or that.