topic Re: Get a specific item by user and itemType in ArcGIS API for Python Questions

Get a specific item by user and itemType

JamesCrandall — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 22:18:55 GMT

I have a Notebook running in AGOL org account that is supposed to find a specific item for a user but it always returns all a list of the items of that type for the user, not the 1 item specified in they query.

items_existing = gis.content.search(query="title:SomeItemTitle, owner:someusername", item_type='PDF')

This does not return the single expected item with the title "SomeItemTitle" and returns the list of all items of type PDF for that user.

Am I not implementing this correctly?

Edit: the problem is that I NEED to delete an item with the exact title name because it will be recreated again with the same title (getting a new itemId). What I am running into is that it cannot find the specific item by title and for some reason when it recreates the pdf item it adds on a datetime stamp into the title name.

Re: Get a specific item by user and itemType

JamesCrandall — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 21:41:07 GMT

I think what I'm running into is that if the item title is not found then it will return a list of all items of that type for that user.

This is sort of confusing as I am expecting an empty list!

Re: Get a specific item by user and itemType

Kepa — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 09:01:38 GMT

Hello @JamesCrandall,

I see that you use comma to separate the query. Did you try a space or AND clause?

Re: Get a specific item by user and itemType

JamesCrandall — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:43:44 GMT

I just tried to replicate what is found in ESRI docs for the combined query parameters. The itemType param is outside of the first combo params for title and user, I didn't see anything for using AND condition anywhere.

I'm not totally certain that this was even a problem for my implementation at all: I was attempting to run a report off a Survey123 (which works great) but before execution the requirement was to delete any exisitng report previously created. This was failing and causing a new report to be created with the same title but a datetime stamp was being added to the title.

To remedy I simply created another Notebook to cycle through the folder and delete any items of type pdf to guarantee none would exist the next time the generate report Notebook ran.

Re: Get a specific item by user and itemType

Kepa — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:52:56 GMT

Glad you've managed a workaround for it. Just to add up, here you can find query string recommendations and examples on search method in case you want to have a look.

Re: Get a specific item by user and itemType

JamesCrandall — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:52:17 GMT

Thank you! This is very useful!