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Accessing BuildingSceneLayer component data

davideprovasoli1 — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:55:21 GMT

Hello everyone,

I import a BuildingSceneLayer in a webscene and and when I click on a component of the 3d model a popup appears with information about that component. I want to access some of these information and use it. I thought it should be straightforward but I cannot seem to extract these information.

I tried with an 'on-click ' event and 'hitTest':

view.on("click", (event) => {

view.hitTest(event).then((response) => {

// check if a graphic is returned from the hitTest

if (response.results[0].graphic) {

// Create query object: by specifying objectIds, the query will return results only for

// the feature matching the graphic's objectid

const query = new Query({

attributes: [

response.results[0].graphic.attributes

// indicates the query should return all attributes

outFields: ["*"]

});

console.log('query', query)

}

});

but only the first of the entries displayed in the popup in found in 'attributes' (see attached screenshots).

Thank you in advance for the time and help.

Re: Accessing BuildingSceneLayer component data

Anonymous User — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:55:31 GMT

Hi @davideprovasoli1

Thanks for reaching out! I think I found what is missing in your code.

Firstly, in order to read the attributes after a hitTest, you need to make them accessible first by configuring the property outFields on the BuildingSceneLayer (see this link, under "Querying"). If you want to make all attributes accessible, use "*". But this is not advised, since it slows down the whole process, so it is better to list only the attributes which are needed.

Secondly, you actually don't need to make a query. After adding the necessary attributes in the outFields property, you can access them directly from the result of the hitTest by reading response.results[0].graphic.attributes.

Here a code snippet:

buildingSceneLayer.outFields = ["*"]; // Make all of the attributes fields accessible view.on("click", (event) => { view.hitTest(event).then((response) => { // check if a graphic is returned from the hitTest if (response.results[0].graphic) { // Read the attributes directly from the results from the hitTest console.log(response.results[0].graphic.attributes); } }); });

I hope this helps, if you have further questions just ask 😉

Daniel

Re: Accessing BuildingSceneLayer component data

davideprovasoli1 — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:05:50 GMT

Thank you very much that is exactly what I was missing!

Best. Davide