Is anyone else having trouble of importing arcgis.gis.server module?

[SpencerHan1]

Following the 1.3 documentation, there is a arcgis.gis.server submodule nested under arcgis.gis. 

However when I try use it, I get an error saying "`arcgis.gis` has no attribute `server`". Souce code as shown below. 

>>> import arcgis

>>> arcgis.gis.server.Server(args)

And as suggested in this post, I tried with importing arcgis.gis. But same error occured. 

>>> from arcgis importgis

>>> gis.server.Server(args)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[JoshuaBixby]

It has to do with Esri's goofy imports within the arcgis modules.  Try:

from arcgis.gis import server
server.Server(...)‍‍

[SpencerHan1]

Thanks, seems to be working. 

[AndrewChapkowski]

Spencer and Joshua,

Thank you for your comment/reply on using the Server class.

Here is the best way to access your server:

gis = GIS(url="https://mysite.com/portal", username='*****')
servers = gis.admin.servers.list()

[JoshuaBixby]

Andrew, the OP never stated whether the desired connection was to a federated or unfederated server, my guess is the latter.

What's new in version 1.3 | ArcGIS for Developers states:

What's new in version 1.3

New

• Added support for unfederated ArcGIS Server instances from the arcgis.gis.server module

I can't speak for others, but reading that strongly implies to me that one should use arcgis.gis.server when connecting to an unfederated GIS server.  Furthermore, the documentation for arcgis.gis module — arcgis 1.4.0 documentation doesn't mention anything about connecting to an unfederated GIS server.  I have discovered, through trial and error, that I can use the unfederated server's administrator REST endpoint (/arcgis/admin) to connect using the GIS class.

If the ArcGIS API for Python team wants users to use GIS as the starting point, it would be helpful to clarify and/or expand the documentation to point users in that direction.

[PhilLarkin1]

Hi bixb0012

Have you had any luck accessing services this way? Can you post an example? Getting access to an unfederated server is a bewildering process with the ArcGIS Python API.

[JoshuaBixby]

Phil, are you speaking about accessing services starting from GIS() or gis.server.Server()?

[PhilLarkin1]

gis.server.Server() 
Here is one method I have tried (edited to remove redundant code)

from arcgis.gis import server

url = r"https://<server>.<domain>.org:6443/arcgis/admin/"


srv = server.catalog.ServicesDirectory(url,username="<usr>",password="<pw>")

print(srv.list("<example>"))

...
KeyError: 'folders'‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

[PhilLarkin1]

My arcgis api is version 1.2.3. An update should solve this problem. 

[JoshuaBixby]

After an update, post back if you are still having problems.  Check out the Upgrade the arcgis package at Install and set up | ArcGIS for Developers