I have a polygon layer I am using as a querytask based on regional boundaries. The polygon layer is our state, cut into 5 large pieces. The county where the state offices are is a region unto itself, called central, which is completely surrounded by northwest region. I have verified that the northwest region does exclude this central region, so I would call this a polygon with a hole in it, or maybe a multipart polygon.My problem is when I want to use the geometry of the northwest region polygon as input to a query and query task. I'm first selecting the region from a pick list and determining the geometry. This geometry is then used as input to a 2nd query task.The callback function from the initial queryTask:
function showRegionResults (results) {
region = results.features[0].geometry;
map.setExtent(region.getExtent(), true);
findStaffInRegion(region);
}
The 2nd query task which is populating a datagrid:
function findStaffInRegion(region) {
var staffQueryTask = new esri.tasks.QueryTask(serverPathName + "/arcgis/rest/services/myService/MapServer/2"); //EUSstaff
var staffQuery = new esri.tasks.Query;
staffQuery.outFields = ["*"];
if (region) {
staffQuery.geometry = region;
staffQuery.spatialRelationship = esri.tasks.Query.SPATIAL_REL_CONTAINS;
staffQueryTask.execute(staffQuery);
dojo.connect(staffQueryTask, "onComplete", function(results){
var items = dojo.map(results.features, function(feature){
return feature.attributes;
});
var data = {
identifier: "Contact_ContactId", //This field needs to have unique values
label: "ID", //Name field for display. Not pertinent to a grid but used elsewhere.
items: items
};
//Create data store and bind to grid.
store = new dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore({
data: data
});
var fp = dijit.byId('floater');
if (fp.style.visibility=="hidden") {
fp.style.visibility="";
fp.show();
}
var staffGrid = dijit.byId('staffGrid');
staffGrid.setStore(store);
openFloatingPane();
});
}else{
console.log("region variable not defined")
}
}
This code works fine for all regions, except for the one that has the hole in it. Is that type of polygon not a valid input geometry for a Query? Am I misunderstanding what spatial relationship I should choose? If I have to, I can run another function that excludes the features that are in the central region, but I'd rather not do that if I just have something wrong with this logic.
