Hi All,
I have a function (copied/pasted below) that does the following:
- Inputs are a user-drawn line and a polygon layer of community types. The goal is to determine which polygon has the most overlap with the line. E.g., if a 1mi line has 0.3mi in community type A, 0.5mi in community type B, and 0.2mi in community type C, the function would return “community type B” as the value because B has the longest overlap distance with the line.
- To do this, the function does an Intersect (highlighted in the code snippet) between the line and the polygons, returning a temporary line feature class in which each feature is the piece of the line in each community type. If the line was only in one community type, this temporary feature class would only have 1 feature.
- Run a search cursor on the temp feature class, returning a dictionary whose items are {community type1: overlap distance for community type 1, community type 2: overlap distance for community type2, etc.}
- Return the dictionary key (i.e., community type) whose value is the largest among the dict values, i.e., return the name of the community type as a string value for the community type polygon that has the most overlap with the line.
Based on some testing, the Intersect_analysis step intermittently (every 10-20 times the tool is run) returns an empty temporary feature class (doing a GetCount of it returns 0 features). If the temp feature class is empty, then there is no “max” overlap value, so in turn function returns an error.
def get_proj_ctype(in_project_fc, commtypes_fc):
'''Get project community type, based on which community type has most spatial overlap with project'''
temp_intersect_fc = os.path.join(arcpy.env.scratchGDB, 'temp_intersect_fc')
arcpy.Intersect_analysis([in_project_fc, commtypes_fc], temp_intersect_fc, "ALL",
0, "LINE")
item_cnt = arcpy.GetCount_management(temp_intersect_fc)[0]
arcpy.AddMessage("Project segments after intersecting with comm types: {}".format(item_cnt))
len_field = 'SHAPE@LENGTH'
fields = ['OBJECTID', len_field, params.col_ctype]
ctype_dist_dict = {}
with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(temp_intersect_fc, fields) as cur:
for row in cur:
ctype = row[fields.index(params.col_ctype)]
seg_len = row[fields.index(len_field)]
if ctype_dist_dict.get(ctype) is None:
ctype_dist_dict[ctype] = seg_len
else:
ctype_dist_dict[ctype] += seg_len
try:
maxval = max([v for k, v in ctype_dist_dict.items()])
proj_ctype = [k for k, v in ctype_dist_dict.items() if v == maxval][0]
return proj_ctype
except:
raise ValueError("ERROR: No Community Type identified for project.")
Any thoughts as to what's going on?
Further information:
- This is on a web tool hosted on ArcServer 10.7.1 and published by me via ArcGIS Pro interface
- The community type polygon feature class is stored in an enterprise geodatabase
- The line feature, as mentioned above, is drawn by the tool user as a tool input in a web browser interface.
- To repeat, this issue only arises every 10-20 (i.e., 90-95% of the time no problems) runs and I can find no pattern in terms of what causes it to arise.
- Tried already
- Searching for other GeoNet posts on this issue, most are for problems that are either in the desktop interface (not in python script, or they are for a very consistent problem. But none for an intermittent problem like mine.
