https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-ideas/make-arcpy-featureset-interoperable-with-the/idi-p/1150968 <P>There are currently two implementations of the FeatureSet within the Esri-verse that are incompatible. Making these two objects interoperable would allow greater ease of use in translating enterprise geodatabase feature classes and web-based feature layers.&nbsp;</P><P>For example, the gis.publish() accepts only one non-file input-- the feature collection. If the FeatureSet was compatible with the ArcPy implementation, a feature class could be turned into a FeatureSet and then a FeatureCollection for publishing. The current alternative is to either export the feature class into a hard file format, or create a map to host a service definition, and then publish.</P><P><A href="https://developers.arcgis.com/python/api-reference/arcgis.gis.toc.html#arcgis.gis.Item.publish" target="_blank">https://developers.arcgis.com/python/api-reference/arcgis.gis.toc.html#arcgis.gis.Item.publish</A></P><P>This post makes the point very succinctly:</P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/arcgis-featureset-arcpy-featureset/m-p/867723#M4501" target="_blank">https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/arcgis-featureset-arcpy-featureset/m-p/867723#M4501</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>So can we make the FeatureSet an actual FeatureSet?</P> Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:35:36 GMT feralcatcolonist_old 2022-03-05T00:35:36Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-ideas/make-arcpy-featureset-interoperable-with-the/idi-p/1150968 <P>There are currently two implementations of the FeatureSet within the Esri-verse that are incompatible. Making these two objects interoperable would allow greater ease of use in translating enterprise geodatabase feature classes and web-based feature layers.&nbsp;</P><P>For example, the gis.publish() accepts only one non-file input-- the feature collection. If the FeatureSet was compatible with the ArcPy implementation, a feature class could be turned into a FeatureSet and then a FeatureCollection for publishing. The current alternative is to either export the feature class into a hard file format, or create a map to host a service definition, and then publish.</P><P><A href="https://developers.arcgis.com/python/api-reference/arcgis.gis.toc.html#arcgis.gis.Item.publish" target="_blank">https://developers.arcgis.com/python/api-reference/arcgis.gis.toc.html#arcgis.gis.Item.publish</A></P><P>This post makes the point very succinctly:</P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/arcgis-featureset-arcpy-featureset/m-p/867723#M4501" target="_blank">https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/arcgis-featureset-arcpy-featureset/m-p/867723#M4501</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>So can we make the FeatureSet an actual FeatureSet?</P> Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:35:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-ideas/make-arcpy-featureset-interoperable-with-the/idi-p/1150968 feralcatcolonist_old 2022-03-05T00:35:36Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-ideas/make-arcpy-featureset-interoperable-with-the/idc-p/1151112#M47 <P>I think we can all agree that this is confusing.<BR /><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="feralcatcolonist_0-1646616696397.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/35713i1168A3A431250166/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="feralcatcolonist_0-1646616696397.png" alt="feralcatcolonist_0-1646616696397.png" /></span><BR />Within the two Python libraries maintained by Esri, there should be agreement about naming objects, the capabilities of those objects, and of course, interoperability within the same language.&nbsp;</P> Mon, 07 Mar 2022 01:37:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-ideas/make-arcpy-featureset-interoperable-with-the/idc-p/1151112#M47 feralcatcolonist_old 2022-03-07T01:37:29Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-ideas/make-arcpy-featureset-interoperable-with-the/idc-p/1161757#M48 <P><SPAN>You've got our attention!&nbsp; We think this is a good suggestion and have entered it in our backlog. We're planning to explore the idea a bit further in the near term.&nbsp; This does not guarantee that the idea will be developed so we encourage the community</SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN>to continue voting and sharing feedback which will help teams gauge user demand.&nbsp;</SPAN></P> Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:19:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-ideas/make-arcpy-featureset-interoperable-with-the/idc-p/1161757#M48 HannesZiegler 2022-04-06T18:19:52Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-ideas/make-arcpy-featureset-interoperable-with-the/idc-p/1250589#M49 <P><a href="https://community.esri.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/447297">@feralcatcolonist_old</a>, don't know if you saw this, but it looks like this was addressed in 2.0.1 <A href="https://developers.arcgis.com/python/guide/release-notes-201/" target="_blank">https://developers.arcgis.com/python/guide/release-notes-201/</A></P> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 22:12:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-ideas/make-arcpy-featureset-interoperable-with-the/idc-p/1250589#M49 Tyce_inCitu 2023-01-23T22:12:51Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-ideas/make-arcpy-featureset-interoperable-with-the/idc-p/1250896#M50 <P><a href="https://community.esri.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/615048">@Tyce_inCitu</a>&nbsp;I totally did! Very excited to see that in the release notes!</P> Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:01:04 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-ideas/make-arcpy-featureset-interoperable-with-the/idc-p/1250896#M50 feralcatcolonist_old 2023-01-24T17:01:04Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-ideas/make-arcpy-featureset-interoperable-with-the/idc-p/1252985#M54 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:34:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-ideas/make-arcpy-featureset-interoperable-with-the/idc-p/1252985#M54 JohnYaist1 2023-01-30T17:34:55Z