Geoprocessing script project data source broken

JesseAdams — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 05:38:04 GMT

I'm trying to publish a fairly simple Geoprocessing script that will allow a user to extract some points to a zipped shapefile. When I try to publish this service to ArcServer 10.2.1 it reports that the scratch folder I'm using for the shapefile: "script contains broken project data source." Here is the code referencing the scratch folder:

outputDir = os.path.join(scriptPath,"ScratchAPD")
if not os.path.exists(outputDir):
    os.mkdir(scriptPath+"\\ScratchAPD")

How can I get this to successfully publish? Is there a different method of referencing a scratch folder that will be used in a geoprocessing script? Thank you!

Re: Geoprocessing script project data source broken

GregYetman — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:44:04 GMT

You may want to change the line that creates the output folder to use the existing variable. A colleague told me about issues publishing scripts that include the '\' character. Apparently, the process uses strict checking and looks for any string that may be a path to see if it exists.

So the code would be:

outputDir = os.path.join(scriptPath,"ScratchAPD")
if not os.path.exists(outputDir):
    os.mkdir(outputDir)

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