Hi all,
currently I am having difficulties identifying the type of object to use when retrieving layers.
This is done in Javascript / JQuery front end & Java MVC / Hibernate controller mid tier.
I am hitting a REST service to grab said layer info, majority of the layers are of type "Feature Layers".
Which is loaded from an ARCGis backend and loaded into a new "esri.layers.FeatureLayer" Javascript object.
Like this:
var featureLayer = new esri.layers.FeatureLayer(url, { [options] };
This however does not work smoothly with other layers (e.g. in particular "Annotation Layers")
For Annotation Layers, I need to use the esri.layers.ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer(url) Javascript object.
var dynamicLayer = new esri.layers.ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer(url);
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And here lies my problem: I currently have no way to identify if said object is a "Feature Layer" or any other type of Layer.
I was wondering if I could load the layer into an ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer Object and ues its properties to see if it is indeed a non-Feature Layer, but the methods / fields for the class seem rather lacklustre.
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TLDR: Anyone knows of a way of identify an ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer layer loaded from REST?
Sincerely,
Xavier
