topic troubleshoot SOE: Can't assign authority metadata to this spatial reference object because it is empty in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/troubleshoot-soe-can-t-assign-authority-metadata/m-p/328788#M12584 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I just upgraded our ArcGIS Servers to version 10.3, and now I get this error when attempting to use a server object extension which worked before the upgrade.&nbsp; I have tried reissuing the extension, to no avail. I have attached the server log, but Googling these errors just brings me to pages of... error lists, not descriptions or solutions.&nbsp; Any suggestions?<IMG alt="SOETshoot.png" class="jive-image image-1" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/53949_SOETshoot.png" style="width: 620px; height: 98px;" /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:48:48 GMT Anonymous User 2015-01-22T23:48:48Z troubleshoot SOE: Can't assign authority metadata to this spatial reference object because it is empty https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/troubleshoot-soe-can-t-assign-authority-metadata/m-p/328788#M12584 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I just upgraded our ArcGIS Servers to version 10.3, and now I get this error when attempting to use a server object extension which worked before the upgrade.&nbsp; I have tried reissuing the extension, to no avail. I have attached the server log, but Googling these errors just brings me to pages of... error lists, not descriptions or solutions.&nbsp; Any suggestions?<IMG alt="SOETshoot.png" class="jive-image image-1" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/53949_SOETshoot.png" style="width: 620px; height: 98px;" /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:48:48 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/troubleshoot-soe-can-t-assign-authority-metadata/m-p/328788#M12584 Anonymous User 2015-01-22T23:48:48Z Re: troubleshoot SOE: Can't assign authority metadata to this spatial reference object because it is empty https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/troubleshoot-soe-can-t-assign-authority-metadata/m-p/328789#M12585 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We were able to figure out what is happening and how to work around it so I'll document it here for posterity.&nbsp; Our SOE utilizes the IGeometryServer.FindSRbyWKID method.&nbsp; Our code had been passing a value of "EPSG" for the optional authority parameter.&nbsp; This worked fine until we upgraded to 10.3 server, when we started seeing the "Can't assign authority metadata to this spatial reference object because it is empty" error.&nbsp; Apparently the inclusion of a string for the authority parameter results in the method returning an empty spatial reference, even if your WKID is legit.&nbsp; Luckily this parameter is optional so the workaround is to simply pass an empty string ("") for this parameter and the method will work again, returning a valid spatial reference object.&nbsp; We went ahead and logged this as a bug with ESRI too.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:25:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/troubleshoot-soe-can-t-assign-authority-metadata/m-p/328789#M12585 DavidAglietti 2015-01-29T19:25:32Z