JS api geometryEngine distance units

LukePhilips — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:14:45 GMT

I'm trying out the geometryEngine api from the JavaScript framework and it doesn't seem to work as intended.

Some code to do distance between two points:

require(["esri/geometry/geometryEngine"], function(geometryEngine) {

this.sr = new esri.SpatialReference({

wkid: 4326 //decimal degrees

});

this.distanceUnit = 9001;

var distance = new Number(0);

geometry1 = new esri.geometry.Point(-105, 40, this.sr);

geometry2 = new esri.geometry.Point(-100, 30, this.sr);

distance = geometryEngine.distance(geometry1, geometry2, this.distanceUnit);

});

the distance returned seems to be a decimal-degree unit, not ever the units I specify (e.g. 9001:meter, 9036:kilometer, 9035:mile)

Is there something I'm missing?

topic JS api geometryEngine distance units in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions