Glad it helped. I thought I'd share how we set it up in our app since the examples I have found are imo dated and somewhat hard to follow. So here it is, a process that takes input from the application and returns a zip file of all features that it intersects with. We kept is simple, with one input parameter and the output.
The function is fired by a button click:
<button class="btn btn-primary" on:click="getZip">Get Zip File</button>
The function:
getSiteZip () {
fileService.selected(this.$http, this.fSearch.fileSearchId).then(response => {
if (response.data && response.data.length > 0) {
var responseString = JSON.stringify(response.data)
ZipService.gpSiteZip(responseString)
}
})
}
That calls to a function in another .js file passing it the results as a JSON string. The zipdownload function initiates the download as soon as the zip file is ready.
function gpSiteZip (results) {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
gp = new Geoprocessor(zipServiceUrl)
var params = {
Input_JSON_String: results
}
gp.submitJob(params, gpJobComplete, gpJobStatus, gpJobFailed).then(response => {
resolve(response)
})
})
})
}
function gpJobStatus (jobinfo) {
var jobstatus = ''
switch (jobinfo.jobStatus) {
case 'esriJobSubmitted':
jobstatus = 'Submitted...'
break
case 'esriJobExecuting':
jobstatus = 'Executing...'
break
case 'esriJobSucceeded':
jobstatus = 'Succedded...'
break
}
console.log(jobstatus)
}
function gpJobComplete (jobinfo) {
gp.getResultData(jobinfo.jobId, 'GPDataFile', zipDownload)
}
function gpJobFailed (error) {
console.log(error)
}
function zipDownload (zipResult) {
var link = document.createElement('a')
link.href = zipResult.value.url
link.download = 'Download Zip'
document.body.appendChild(link)
link.click()
}
export default {
gpSiteZip: gpSiteZip
}
The service is a script tool that returns a GPDataFile.
The script's structure for creating the zip file looks like below- I took out the variables since I bet everyone who comes across this will have a different process that they can easily script. This is just to show an alternative to the ClipAndShip toolbox example.
def jsontosql(jsonstr):
try:
return sqlstring
except (Exception, RuntimeError) as err:
return err
def generateAOI(sqlstring, srcFC):
try:
arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management()
arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management()
aoi = arcpy.CreateUniqueName()
arcpy.CopyFeatures_management()
return aoi
except (Exception, RuntimeError) as err:
return err
def toCopy(aoi, fc_list):
try:
featureSelected = []
for fc in fc_list:
fcname = os.path.basename(fc).split('.')[-1].replace(' ', '')
arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management()
arcpy.SelectLayerByLocation_management()
outfc = arcpy.CreateUniqueName()
arcpy.CopyFeatures_management()
featureInvSelected.append()
arcpy.Delete_management()
return featureSelected
except (Exception, RuntimeError) as err:
return err
def zipFolder(outFolder):
try:
shutil.make_archive(outFolder, 'zip', outFolder)
outzip = '{}.zip'.format(outFolder)
return outzip
except (Exception, RuntimeError) as err:
return err
def getSites(instring, outputDirectory, srcFC, fc_list):
try:
date = ''.join(datetime.now().isoformat().split('T')[0].split('-'))
outputName = 'ExtractedFeatures_' + date
sqlstring = jsontosql(instring)
aoi = generateAOI(sqlstring, srcFC)
Selsites = toCopy(aoi, fc_list)
outFolder = arcpy.CreateUniqueName(outputName, outputDirectory)
arcpy.CreateFolder_management(outputDirectory, os.path.basename(outFolder))
for fc in Selsites:
fcount = int(arcpy.GetCount_management(fc)[0])
outfc = os.path.join(outFolder, os.path.basename(fc) + '.shp')
if fcount > 0:
arcpy.AddMessage('\t' + outfc)
arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(fc, outfc)
outzip = zipFolder(outFolder)
cleanup(aoi, siteInvSelected)
return outzip
except (Exception, RuntimeError) as err:
return err
if __name__ == '__main__':
outputDirectory = arcpy.env.scratchFolder
instring = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)
if instring == '
instring = '[Example of the input parameter here to assist in running the tool to get a result for publishing'
featurelayer1 = r''
featurelayer2 = r''
featurelayer3 = r''
featurelayer6 = r''
fc_list = [featurelayer1, featurelayer2, featurelayer3]
instring = json.loads(instring)
arcpy.SetParameter(1, getSites(instring, outputDirectory, srcFC, fc_list))
Hope this helps with the process.
