topic Re: FeatureLayer.FromJson thows exception in ArcGIS API for Silverlight Questions

FeatureLayer.FromJson thows exception

KirkKuykendall — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:02:36 GMT

Not sure if this is a bug or maybe I'm just doing something wrong. When I run this code with 2.2 ...

private void Test()
{
    WebClient wc = new WebClient();
    wc.OpenReadCompleted += (sender, args) =>
        {
            if (args.Error == null)
            {
                StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(args.Result);
                string json = reader.ReadToEnd();
                var fLayer = FeatureLayer.FromJson(json);
            }
            else
                Debug.WriteLine(args.Error.Message);
        };            

    string url = @"http://sampleserver1.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Demographics/ESRI_Census_USA/MapServer/0?f=pjson";
    wc.OpenReadAsync(new Uri(url));
}

I get this exception:

System.ArgumentException occurred
  Message=layerDefinition
Parameter name: Property was not found during JSON deserialization.
  StackTrace:
       at ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.FeatureLayer.FromDictionary(IDictionary`2 definition)
       at ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.FeatureLayer.FromJson(String json)
       at Viewer.Addins.Query.QueryControl.<Test>b__1(Object sender, OpenReadCompletedEventArgs args)
  InnerException:

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Re: FeatureLayer.FromJson thows exception

KirkKuykendall — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 19:41:49 GMT

I think I've found a workaround

private void Test()
{
    var fLayer = new FeatureLayer();
    fLayer.ID = "my flayer";
    fLayer.Url = @"http://sampleserver1.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Specialty/ESRI_StatesCitiesRivers_USA/MapServer/0";
    //fLayer.Url = @"http://www.badurl123.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Specialty/ESRI_StatesCitiesRivers_USA/MapServer/0;";
    fLayer.Initialized += (sender, args) =>
        {
            foreach (Field f in fLayer.LayerInfo.Fields)
                Debug.WriteLine(f.Name);
                    
        };
    fLayer.InitializationFailed += (sender, args) =>
        {
            Debug.WriteLine("init failed");
        };
    fLayer.Initialize();
}

However if I use badurl123.com, InitializationFailed is not called as I would expect. Instead Initialized is called, which is not expected.

Re: FeatureLayer.FromJson thows exception

DominiqueBroux — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 19:41:52 GMT

However if I use badurl123.com, InitializationFailed is not called as I would expect. Instead Initialized is called, which is not expected.

In case of failure, both events are fired with InitializationFailure set.
You should see both events after changing your code this way:

 
    fLayer.Initialized += (sender, args) =>
        {
            if (fLayer.InitializationFailure == null)
              foreach (Field f in fLayer.LayerInfo.Fields)
                  Debug.WriteLine(f.Name);                
        };