I need to be able to use arcpy.da.Editor within the context of an existing ArcGIS Pro edit session. Is this possible or are the two completely separate?
Use Case:
Application where single workspace edit sessions are required. Datasets are traditional versioned. User has an edit session running to modify shapes and attributes. User then needs to run a Python script for an automated part of their workflow. That Python script updates a value in a record in one of the versioned datasets. User then decides to discard edits. That discard should also drop the change that the Python script made.
What I Have Tried:
Start editing in ArcGIS Pro via Edit tab | Edit button
Run this code:
myLayer = sys.argv[1] # Parameter with Data Type: Feature Layer
edit = arcpy.da.Editor(r'c:\path\mysde.sde')
edit.startEditing(False, True)
edit.startOperation()
with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(myLayer, ['thefield'], "objectid = 1") as ucur:
for urow in ucur:
urow[0] = 'new value'
ucur.updateRow(urow)
edit.stopOperation()
edit.stopEditing(True)
This results in the edits being made, but the Edit tab | Save button does not enable, which tells me the edits were not made within the existing ArcGIS Pro edit session.
I have also tried using arcpy.management.CalculateField, but if there is an ArcGIS Pro edit session when that is run, the Pro edit session gets stopped.
Is there any other way to edit attributes within the ArcGIS Pro edit session from Python?
