Availability of ArcPy features in Runtime for WPF

Question

I know there are only a few geoprocessing tools available through Arcpy in the runtime SDK and they can be used only with the standard license. I could not find documentation on what other classes of Arcpy are available/not available/planned for a future release?

1. Can you connect to an existing file geodatabase through arcpy and use search/insert/update cursors?
2. Are there any limitations to using cursors or they are work just like they work with ArcGIS Desktop-Arcpy?
3. I got to know from another post, that arcpy.mapping module is not available in the runtime sdk. I could not find documentation on which modules are available/not available when using arcpy in the runtime sdk. Does anyone know?

We are planning to propose a wpf application using runtime sdk for a client and it is very important for us to know this.

regards
Anand

geography-matters · Answer

Hi,

The exceptions to this are the ArcPy.Mapping module, and custom or third-party modules.

Cheers

Mike

Thanks Mike,

So this means, if i use some third party module like reportlab, it wont work, right? 
Because reportlab as a module has to be installed to your python installation (in case of desktop). The runtime has embedded python and we cannot install modules into the embedded python and package and distribute it, right?

Will simple modules work, i mean the ones without any external dependencies like some utility functions, that we can append to the path (sys.path.append), they should get picked up in the preparation of gpk and should work fine. Am i correct?

regards
Anand

MichaelBranscomb · Answer

Hi,

The majority of Python script tools that execute successfully on your computer in Desktop should publish successfully as a Geoprocessing Package and run on the LocalServer included with ArcGIS Runtime SDK for WPF. The exceptions to this are the ArcPy.Mapping module, and custom or third-party modules. There's a good article here which covers many of the considerations for publishing Python scripts as service-based tasks: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/Authoring_geoprocessing_tasks_with_Python_scripts/01540000054p000000/.

Cheers

Mike

BKuiper · Answer

Hi,

i can't officially confirm that, but i have used some of these classes, so i think they are all supported

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/Alphabetical_list_of_ArcPy_classes/018z000000mq000000/

Furthermore, i think the spatial analyst module, network module and 3d module are supported. this can be derived from the Local Runtime License Viewer (part of ArcGIS Runtime for WPF).

Perhaps Mike, the runtime development time, can shed some light on this for you.