topic Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error? in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

ChrisSergent — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:34:11 GMT

I have an application where I am using the editing functionality. It works as long as I enter information for all fields, but if any field are missing information, I receive Unable to perform applyEdits error.

My live application is at:http://maps.decaturil.gov/streetsignshttp://geonet.esri.com/

My github project is at: https://github.com/csergent45/streetSigns/tree/176dbb8a76f3773964ab25987f8e4f8cabcc9308

and here is the error that I am receiving:

If I enter data in for all fields, the application runs without a hitch. The JavaScript file is in the app folder named main.js.

Any ideas?

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

KyleMorgan — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:09:12 GMT

My guess is that your integer fields & date field do not like to be empty (supportID, addrCode and dateInv). I'd start there. If they need to be required, I'd scrub the form data and force a default value that means nothing (-9999 / '1900-01-01').

This works... (Form payload)

[{"geometry":{"x":796086.8072222222,"y":1176275.4861111112,"spatialReference":{"wkid":3435}},"attributes":{"address":"test","supportId":"1","type":"Single Post","size":"12in. tube","material":"","base":"","rating":"","dateInv":"2015-04-22","inspector":"K. Morgan","comments":"","addrCode":"1"}}]

While this fails... (Form payload)

[{"geometry":{"x":796086.8072222222,"y":1176275.4861111112,"spatialReference":{"wkid":3435}},"attributes":{"address":"test","supportId":"","type":"Single Post","size":"12in. tube","material":"","base":"","rating":"","dateInv":"","inspector":"K. Morgan","comments":"","addrCode":""}}]

Pretty please...

Also, you will want to delete all of the records near that geometry ("geometry":{"x":796086.8072222222,"y":1176275.4861111112,"spatialReference":{"wkid":3435}}) with "inspector" 'K. Morgan'. Tried to pick an area where there wasn't any edits for clean-up purposes.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

DanielStauning — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:11:45 GMT

Chris,

It sounds like your fields don't allow null values but I would check your server logs to see if there are more informative errors.

-Dan

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

KyleMorgan — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:15:19 GMT

I would also set the form field types to the correct behaviour of the back-end...

IE: Change text fields to number fields for supportID and addrCode

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

ChrisSergent — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:29:30 GMT

It does look like it trying to place text into my date and number fields. Now I just need to figure out how to strip out the "" for those fields and then it may work.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

KyleMorgan — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:33:49 GMT

I haven't looked at your code yet but in the past, I stop the default form events, scrub the form data as I populate a JSON object and post to the server using dojo XHR.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

ChrisSergent — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:36:24 GMT

I'm not sure how to do that. I'll work with the form the best I can.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

KyleMorgan — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:39:22 GMT

I'll look through your code later tonight on github and see what I can do to help.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

williamcarr — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:23:48 GMT

I ran afoul this same issue with my forms, and the issue was with having a manual date field and a space in the value field (or a null value). I changed the date to an auto variable and also set all of my fields to allow Null values. I also noticed that I had a comments field that, during testing, was set to only have 10 characters so inputting a string like "This is where I saw the leprechaun" would throw the same error.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

ChrisSergent — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:08:56 GMT

I had this issue in .NET and was able to fix it by removing the '' or replacing them in my insert statements, but I am not sure how to do that in JavaScript.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

ChrisSergent — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:24:29 GMT

I just updated the field types. That didn't help. I was hoping it would have.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

williamcarr — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:28:25 GMT

I would try editing all the values in your input,

(<input id="location" name="location" value="Under your nose" type="text">)

to ones that fit your schema just to ensure it is not the issue. I did notice that your "Name" field had the type set to "email" not sure if that could be a validation issue, but it could be worth double checking.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

ChrisSergent — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:45:11 GMT

That's actually the feedback form from the project that I have been converting. I haven't been using that form.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

KyleMorgan — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:06:41 GMT

I would look into using native Dojo form elements to properly validate against. It will allow for rule enforcement like number and date values in the proper fields.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

KyleMorgan — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:08:16 GMT

Your GITHUB should now have a pull request addressing the form validation for the 3 problem children.

Also, note the changes reflect being ran against JSHint and addressing the errors that appeared.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

ChrisSergent — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 04:01:51 GMT

Thanks. I modified your code and I no longer have to enter any data. Check it out:

if ((attributes.supportId === undefined) || (attributes.supportId === "")) {
            attributes.supportId = null;
        }
        if ((attributes.dateInv === undefined) || (attributes.dateInv === "")) {
            attributes.dateInv = null;
        }
        if ((attributes.addrCode === undefined) || (attributes.addrCode === "")) {
            attributes.addrCode = null;
        }

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

KyleMorgan — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:30:44 GMT

As long as your back-end database supports it and the data structure doesn't panic on joins, should be fine.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

ChrisSergent — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 20:04:28 GMT

Good point. We will have to address that with real data.

Do you know how to do a git pull? I need to merge my data to my local project.

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

KyleMorgan — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 20:41:28 GMT

Are you talking about a local change or my pull request?

Usual workflow...

/repository <user>$ git pull

For working on a branch... <Recalling from memory so I may be off... Anyone, please correct me where wrong.>

/repository <user>$ git checkout -b <branch name>

/repository <user>$ git branch

master

* <branch name>

[ do some work ]

/repository <user>$ git commit -a -m "Comments"

[ when ready to commit to master... ]

/repository <user>$ git checkout master

/repository <user>$ git fetch upstream // In case there is work outside of your commits.

/repository <user>$ git merge upstream

/repository <user>$ git merge <branch name>

/repository <user>$ git push

/repository <user>$ git branch -d <branch name>

Re: Why am I receiving an "Unable to perform applyEdits error?

ChrisSergent — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 20:46:13 GMT

I got it to work. Guessed at it, but I will bookmark this, just in case I run into the issue again. Thanks.