FRAMES | NO FRAMES | Description | Parameters | Examples | Response |
URL | http://<featurelayer-url>/addFeatures (POST only) |
Parent Resource | Layer |
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This operation adds features to the associated feature layer or table (POST only). The add features operation is performed on a feature service layer resource. The result of this operation is an array of edit results. Each edit result identifies a single feature and indicates if the edits were successful or not. If not, it also includes an error code and an error description.
You can provide arguments to the add features operation as query parameters defined in the parameters table below.
Parameter | Details |
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f | Description: The
response format. The default response format is html. Values: html | json |
features |
Description: The array of features to be added. The structure of each feature in the array is
same as the structure of the json feature object
returned by the ArcGIS REST API.
Features to be added to a feature layer should include the geometry. Records to be added to a table should not include the geometry. Syntax: [ <feature1>, <feature2> ] [ { "geometry" : {"x" : -118.15, "y" : 33.80}, "attributes" : { "OWNER" : "Joe Smith", "VALUE" : 94820.37, "APPROVED" : true, "LASTUPDATE" : 1227663551096 } }, { "geometry" : { "x" : -118.37, "y" : 34.086 }, "attributes" : { "OWNER" : "John Doe", "VALUE" : 17325.90, "APPROVED" : false, "LASTUPDATE" : 1227628579430 } } ] |
Example 1: Add an array of features using the add features operation on a feature service layer resource http://sampleserver3.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/SanFrancisco/311Incidents/FeatureServer/0/addFeatures
Sample input array of features:
[ { "attributes" : { "req_id" : "508389", "req_type" : "Graffiti Complaint - Public Property", "req_date" : "09\/19\/2009", "req_time" : "18:44", "address" : "11TH ST and HARRISON ST", "x_coord" : "6008925.0", "y_coord" : "2108713.8", "district" : "6", "status" : 1 }, "geometry" : { "x" : -122.41247978999991, "y" : 37.770630098000083 } } ]
{ "addResults" : [ { "objectId" : <objectId1>, "globalId" : <globalId1>, "success" : <true | false>, "error" : { //only if success is false "code" : <code1>, "description" : "<description1>", } }, { "objectId" : <objectId2>, "globalId" : <globalId2>, "success" : <true | false>, "error" : { //only if success is false "code" : <code2>, "description" : "<description2>", } } ] }
{ "addResults" : [ { "objectId" : 37, "globalId" : null, "success" : true }, { "objectId" : -1, "globalId" : null, "success" : false, "error" : { "code" : 50, "description" : "Cannot add unapproved parcels.", } } ] }