FeatureCollection.FromJson just doesn't work for me

[MarcHillman]

I have, for years, been trying to get FeatureCollection.FromJson to work, but it just doesn't. I must be doing something simple wrong. I am using Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019 (VB.NET), and latest Esri.ArcGISRuntime 100.11.2.

I have a simple code fragment
Dim fs As New FeatureCollection
fs = FeatureCollection.FromJson(responseStr)

responseStr contains the geojson string below. After execution, fs is empty with no runtime failure.

I have had to resort to using the Newtonsoft.Json package to decode the json, which has no problem with it.

What am I doing wrong? (How can something so simple be so hard?)

{
	"type": "FeatureCollection",
	"crs": {
		"type": "name",
		"properties": {
			"name": "EPSG:4326"
		}
	},
	"features": [
		{
			"type": "Feature",
			"id": 1158,
			"geometry": null,
			"properties": {
				"objectid": 1158,
				"featuretype": "Railway Station",
				"type": 1,
				"name": "ABERDEEN",
				"railstationstatus": "Operational",
				"featurereliability": 1103587200000,
				"featuresource": "SP5PAN2P5_388415_21122004",
				"attributereliability": 1189728000000,
				"attributesource": "GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA",
				"planimetricaccuracy": 10,
				"revised": 1239667200000,
				"gaid": null,
				"stkehdrid": null,
				"stkehdrname": null,
				"upperscale": 5000000,
				"uscertainty": "Definite",
				"textnote": null,
				"editcode": 88,
				"symbol100k": 222,
				"symbol250k": 222,
				"symbolwac1mil": 2,
				"symbol2_5mil": 2,
				"symbol5mil": 2
			}
		}
	]
}

[DominiqueBroux]

Your JSON string is not an ArcGIS Feature Collection.
ArcGIS Feature Collections are defined here: https://developers.arcgis.com/web-map-specification/objects/featureCollection/

This is more likely an OGC feature collection.

[MarcHillman]

I call many different RESTful GIS severs. A typical one is https://services.ga.gov.au/gis/rest/services/NM_Transport_Infrastructure/MapServer/4/query . The format parameter I'm using is geojson. So how am I supposed to parse whatever it is returning with ESRIArcGISRuntime?

[dotMorten_esri · Accepted solution]

There is no built-in GeoJson support in the runtime, so you'd need your own parser for GeoJson. The method you're using expects json formatted as FeatureCollection JSON. The link you pointed to above, you can use f=json instead of f=geojson to get the format that runtime uses - however that is the features part of the feature collection json, which is only one part of the json needed for a feature collection (you'd also need the feature set schema which comes from the feature service). The FromJson method you're using is mostly meant to be used together with the ToJson method to store feature collections.

Is there a reason you're not using the ServiceFeatureTable class, which will perform all the server rest queries and parsing for you?

[MarcHillman]

The reason I'm not using ServiceFeatureTable class is I've never heard of them. Looks like I have some reading to do. Thanks.

[MarcHillman]

I have finally gotten back to this, and I have read up on ServiceFeatureTable. They are AWESOME. They have completely solved my problem and avoided the need for an http request, and a JSON decode. I now get all that I need with a few lines of code. I'll be using this a lot in the future