topic Re: Bug in 4.12 JS API - Circle no longer has radius property in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Bug in 4.12 JS API - Circle no longer has radius property

Jay_Gregory — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 19:52:52 GMT

At least when using the sketch widget, upon drawing a circle, the object's geometry no longer has a radius property. This was not the case in 4.11 version of the API, where you did have access to the radius property after drawing a circle. Don't know if this is the case with all circle objects in the API....

Reproducible @ https://codepen.io/crackernutter/pen/LKrmQb

Change codepen API to 4.11 to see the changes....

Re: Bug in 4.12 JS API - Circle no longer has radius property

BenElan — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 22:51:04 GMT

Hi Jay,

You can still calculate the radius of a circle by accessing the extent's width and dividing by two.

In your Code Pen example it would be: console.log(evt.item.geometry.extent.width/2);

Re: Bug in 4.12 JS API - Circle no longer has radius property

Jay_Gregory — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 20:52:19 GMT

Thanks! That is a very good point -

However, the benefit of having the radius property is that it is also a handy way to track the the original geometry was a circle in the first place - since arbitrary polygons or rectangles don't have that property. Our users like knowing the radius of their circles, so I'd have to "mark" the graphic as a circle somehow to know that I would need to calculate the radius - otherwise the application would display the radius for other polygons as well.

It's not a huge deal, but I did like that the property was there in 4.11 - if it's being removed in 4.12 that's fine, I just thought it was a bug

Re: Bug in 4.12 JS API - Circle no longer has radius property

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 12:23:24 GMT

Jay,

I am sure it is a bug and that you need to report this to esri tech support.

Re: Bug in 4.12 JS API - Circle no longer has radius property

BenElan — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:15:57 GMT

Hello Jay,

I have logged a bug for this issue: BUG-000123558

Thanks.