I cannot get WFS to work correctly in AGOL by adding a feed as a FeatureLayer. It sort of works but ignores the layer selection and simply gets the first layer.
If I use a WebMap and add a layer with a source as WFS then the same dialogs appear and the layer selection does work to produce a map layer. Fine, but it is not very useful because I cannot use Arcade on it. It is read-only. I can add a cql_filter with custom parameters. Finally I cannot export it to a FeatureLayer from the WebMap. It is slightly promising because it indicates that it might work if the bug when defining a FeatureLayer source is fixed.
I really need to copy the WFS layers into a proper FeatureLayer Collection. You CAN do this easily using Pro! Set up a new WFS server in ArcCatalog, including custom parameters as required, add the layers to the table of contents.
Turn off some fields, add more filters, rename layers, load metadata and edit, set up symbology. Change the download limits from 3000 to 100,000. Now just Share to AGOL! Any schema change or new data requires manually replacing the layer, watch out for caches.
Now I want to automate this with Python. Particularly in AGOL using a Notebook and a Task. Seems to be possible with the new Pandas SeDF (spatially enabled dataframe) in arcgis package. Not so fast!
Loading WFS features into Pandas sdf.
This should be easy to do with python requests and geopandas. There are new functions in arcgis to translate from geopandas to sdf and from sdf to a FeatureLayer. You need to import geopandas so that you can read the WFS feed directly into a sdf data frame first. There is a posting noting that you cannot read a WFS feed directly into an Esri sedf. Catch 22 - you cannot import geopandas in a AGOL notebook because it is a Docker instance started up each time. It can work from a Desktop because you can set up a venv that does have geopandas.
So how can I install geopandas in AGOL Notebook?
