I know there are some threads out there that seems to already answer part of the my question.
I am trying to overwrite a service to ArcServer through ArcPy but when I am using this "esriServiceDefinitionType_Replacement" service its rewriting the service definition. For example, the existing service is a feature service and Linear referencing service with certain pool and so forth. After the overwrite is done its just a map service.
Here is the code that I am using. (its a little messy since I am setting it up to iterate through 39 folders and overwrite 39 different service)
import arcpy
import os
import xml.dom.minidom as DOM
arcpy.env.overwriteoutput = True
arcpy.env.overwrite_existing_service = True
target_root = r'\\Server\Cloud Share\IT_SHARE\Development\GIS-Mo\GIS Data Dev\Spokane'
infile = r'\\Server\Cloud Share\IT_SHARE\Development\GIS-Mo\GIS Data Dev\Spokane\Spokane County Inv.mxd'
# define local variables
wrkspc = target_root # folder directory header
mapDoc = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(infile) # actual name of the mxd
con = r'User\AppData\Roaming\ESRI\Desktop10.5\ArcCatalog\serverstaging on www.apps.crab.wa.gov (publisher).ags' # string to the ArcGIS Server connection file service = 'Spokane_County_Inv'
print ('Service name = ' + service) # service name we will want to iterate name
sddraft = os.path.join(wrkspc, service) + '.sddraft' # service draft
sd = os.path.join(wrkspc, service) + '.sd' # service definition
summary = 'Test service for doing the overwrite' # summary that can be anything
tags = 'test' # tags that can be anything
# create service definition draft
analysis = arcpy.mapping.CreateMapSDDraft(mapDoc, sddraft, service, 'ARCGIS_SERVER',
con, True, None, summary, tags)
newType = 'esriServiceDefinitionType_Replacement'
xml = os.path.join(wrkspc, sddraft)
doc = DOM.parse(xml)
descriptions = doc.getElementsByTagName('Type')
for desc in descriptions:
if desc.parentNode.tagName == 'SVCManifest':
if desc.hasChildNodes():
desc.firstChild.data = newType
outXml = xml
f = open(outXml, 'w')
doc.writexml( f )
f.close()
# stage and upload the service if the sddraft analysis did not contain errors
if analysis['errors'] == {}:
# Execute StageService
print ('Stage Service')
arcpy.StageService_server(sddraft, sd)
# Execute UploadServiceDefinition
print ('Upload Service Def')
arcpy.UploadServiceDefinition_server(sd,
con,
in_service_name="",
in_cluster="",
in_folder_type="FROM_SERVICE_DEFINITION",
in_folder="", in_startupType="STARTED",
in_override="USE_DEFINITION",
in_my_contents="NO_SHARE_ONLINE",
in_public="PRIVATE",
in_organization="NO_SHARE_ORGANIZATION",
in_groups="")
else:
# if the sddraft analysis contained errors, display them
print analysis['errors']
print ('Published Successfully: ' + service)
