topic Accomplish &amp;quot;GET SERVICE INFO&amp;quot; of ArcGIS Server Service with Flex API? in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-flex-questions/accomplish-amp-quot-get-service-info-amp-quot-of/m-p/762734#M16806 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I used to use the GET_SERVICE_INFO ArcXML element with ArcIMS to get service information, such as layer names, field names, and field types.&nbsp; That technology would return error information when the service is not available.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now, I want to detect if ArcGIS Server services are available through our Flex app.&nbsp; I didn't find a class (1.3 library) that accomplishes the same thing as the old GET_SERVICE_INFO.&nbsp; I did try to use the getLayerDetails of an ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer object to see if anything comes back to the responder when getting layer details for the first layer (0);&nbsp; I wanted to handle the case in which the service is not running (error trapping)...&nbsp; The fault function would inform the user that the service appears to be down.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I stopped the service in ArcGIS Server Manager, waited for the REST API to refresh, and tried my approach.&nbsp; The app still gets layer details returned, even when the service is stopped!&nbsp; I was surprised.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Do you know of a good approach to detecting service availability and acquiring information on the layers that are available in a service?&nbsp; I really want to trap error conditions, such as "service not available," and "expected layer does not exist in service."</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:49:00 GMT IvanBrown 2010-09-10T14:49:00Z Accomplish &quot;GET SERVICE INFO&quot; of ArcGIS Server Service with Flex API? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-flex-questions/accomplish-amp-quot-get-service-info-amp-quot-of/m-p/762734#M16806 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I used to use the GET_SERVICE_INFO ArcXML element with ArcIMS to get service information, such as layer names, field names, and field types.&nbsp; That technology would return error information when the service is not available.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now, I want to detect if ArcGIS Server services are available through our Flex app.&nbsp; I didn't find a class (1.3 library) that accomplishes the same thing as the old GET_SERVICE_INFO.&nbsp; I did try to use the getLayerDetails of an ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer object to see if anything comes back to the responder when getting layer details for the first layer (0);&nbsp; I wanted to handle the case in which the service is not running (error trapping)...&nbsp; The fault function would inform the user that the service appears to be down.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I stopped the service in ArcGIS Server Manager, waited for the REST API to refresh, and tried my approach.&nbsp; The app still gets layer details returned, even when the service is stopped!&nbsp; I was surprised.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Do you know of a good approach to detecting service availability and acquiring information on the layers that are available in a service?&nbsp; I really want to trap error conditions, such as "service not available," and "expected layer does not exist in service."</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:49:00 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-flex-questions/accomplish-amp-quot-get-service-info-amp-quot-of/m-p/762734#M16806 IvanBrown 2010-09-10T14:49:00Z Re: Accomplish "GET SERVICE INFO" of ArcGIS Server Service with Flex API? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-flex-questions/accomplish-amp-quot-get-service-info-amp-quot-of/m-p/762735#M16807 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Are you listening to loadError like this?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="lia-code-sample line-numbers language-none"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;esri:Map&gt; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;esri:ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer id="lyr" &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; load="trace(event)" &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loadError="trace(event)" &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; url="http://sampleserver3.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Foo/MapServer"/&gt; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/esri:Map&gt; </PRE></BODY></HTML> Sun, 12 Dec 2021 08:25:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-flex-questions/accomplish-amp-quot-get-service-info-amp-quot-of/m-p/762735#M16807 DasaPaddock 2021-12-12T08:25:18Z