topic LayerDefinition length in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/layerdefinition-length/m-p/679468#M63316 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>G'day,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We have moved from ArcGIS JS 2.1 to 3.8 and I have now noticed that when using a long LayerDefinition clause it doesn't do anything however subsequent map operations such as pan or zoom then raise stack exceptions (IE 9 though Chrome doesn't work either) until I reset the LayerDefinition to the default. It looks to me like the LayerDefinition is limited to 512 or so characters.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>ArcGIS 2.1 also does not work for large layer definition queries but we don't seem to get stack exception in that version. It fails silently.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The definition query is of the form "OBJECTID IN (1,2,3,4,...)"</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We have the proxy configured via esriConfig.defaults.io.proxyUrl and esriConfig.defaults.io.alwaysUseProxy and this seems to work for the rest of the map functionality.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is this a known or expected limitation?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Steven.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Mar 2014 23:13:44 GMT stevenwhite1 2014-03-04T23:13:44Z LayerDefinition length https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/layerdefinition-length/m-p/679468#M63316 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>G'day,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We have moved from ArcGIS JS 2.1 to 3.8 and I have now noticed that when using a long LayerDefinition clause it doesn't do anything however subsequent map operations such as pan or zoom then raise stack exceptions (IE 9 though Chrome doesn't work either) until I reset the LayerDefinition to the default. It looks to me like the LayerDefinition is limited to 512 or so characters.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>ArcGIS 2.1 also does not work for large layer definition queries but we don't seem to get stack exception in that version. It fails silently.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The definition query is of the form "OBJECTID IN (1,2,3,4,...)"</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We have the proxy configured via esriConfig.defaults.io.proxyUrl and esriConfig.defaults.io.alwaysUseProxy and this seems to work for the rest of the map functionality.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is this a known or expected limitation?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Steven.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Mar 2014 23:13:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/layerdefinition-length/m-p/679468#M63316 stevenwhite1 2014-03-04T23:13:44Z