topic Re: Discover Map Services Available from a ArcGIS Server in ArcGIS API for Silverlight Questions

Discover Map Services Available from a ArcGIS Server

HeavyWoody — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:58:09 GMT

Is there a mechanism that will let me discover what Map Services are available by simply putting in the URL for discover? For example, http://www.somecompany.edu/ArcGIS/rest/services is entered and then grabbing all the Map Services available? I see ArcGIS Explorer Online lets you do it by specifying a ArcGIS URL. Can it be done with the Silverlight/WPF API tool? I just hate hard coding the URLs.

Re: Discover Map Services Available from a ArcGIS Server

RichardWatson — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:41:44 GMT

I don't know of built-in way to do this from Silverlight but writing it yourself would be easy.

You just need to write some server side logic and expose it via REST. The logic would simply connect to the SOM, gets whatever information you require from it, and then returns the results. If you have a proxy page then that might be a good place to put this logic.

Re: Discover Map Services Available from a ArcGIS Server

JenniferNery — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:37:47 GMT

Here's some documentation on how you could use ServiceDirectory http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisserver/10.0/apis/rest/servicesdirectory.html

Re: Discover Map Services Available from a ArcGIS Server

KirkKuykendall — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:56:44 GMT

Using the REST api, and starting with a root url, it doesn't seem like it would be hard to crawl through all the Folders recursively.

Re: Discover Map Services Available from a ArcGIS Server

DaveTimmins — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:27:13 GMT

Hi,

take a look at this sample (called ArcGIS Server Explorer for Silverlight), it does something similar (note that on the 11th it will move location to the new resources.arcgis.com site)

http://resources.esri.com/arcgisserver/apis/silverlight/index.cfm?fa=codeGalleryDetails&scriptID=16243