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Use Folder.add function and wait ArcGIS Python API

DavidHanimann — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:37:43 GMT

I am trying to add a FeatureService to a folder in ArcGIS Online using the Python APIs Folder.add() method.

This method returns a Future. How can I wait for this to finish and execute the remainder of the script synchronously? The only way I found was with a while loop, which is not nice.

item_properties = { "title": "Test Feature Service", "tags": "example, feature service", "type": "File Geodatabase", } gdb_path = r"Default.gdb.zip" folder = login.content.folders.get(folder="My_Folder", owner="my-username") add_job = folder.add(item_properties, gdb_path) while True: if add_job.done(): result = add_job.result() break print(result)

Re: Use Folder.add function and wait ArcGIS Python API

Clubdebambos — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:28:10 GMT

Hi @DavidHanimann,

I just use the below.

## the .result() will return an item object representing the added gdb item_obj = folder.add(item_properties, gdb_path).result() # do whatever you need to the content item object, for example publish (which in-turn returns another itehm object - a Feature Service [FeatureLayerCollection]) another_item_obj = item_obj.publish() # do whatever you need on the published item, add to groups, update symbology/popups, add to a WebMap etc

I have iterated over tens of zipped datasets for upload (add) and publishing and adding to folders, groups, adding symbology/popups/labels etc without any issues.

I hope that helps,

Glen