clone_items() fails with timeout error

DanaAbumourhMAG — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:44:42 GMT

Hello!

I have an ArcGIS Online Hosted Feature Layer, its size is 255 MB, it has attachments with size: 12.53 GB. It's failing to clone (clone_items) due to time out after about 15-20 minutes.

Smaller Feature Layers clone without issues.

Is there a limit to the size of the items we can clone? If there is, is there a way to work around this?

Sample script:

from arcgis.gis import GIS gis = GIS("https://arcgis.com", "username", "password", expiration=9999) layer = gis.content.get("featureserviceid") gis.content.clone_items([layer], "Test Folder")

This is the error I'm getting:

Your request has timed out. : (Error Code: 504)', <Item title:"item_title" type:Feature Layer Collection owner:username>)
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\Lib\site-packages\arcgis\_impl\common\_clone.py", line 4270, in clone
raise _ItemCreateException(
arcgis._impl.common._clone._ItemCreateException: ('Failed to create Feature Service service_name: Your request has timed out. (Error Code: 504)', <Item title:"item_title" type:Feature Layer Collection owner:username>)

Re: clone_items() fails with timeout error

David_McRitchie — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:28:11 GMT

Hey Dana,

I took a look and saw that a bug (BUG-000120207) had been logged a while ago for this that unfortunately had to be closed as this is a known limit with the ArcGIS API for Python.

As a workaround I suspect that an empty layer with matching schema would need to be created, and then data appended in chunks to try get around the time outs.

Hope that helps,

David

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