Problem reading data from ArcGIS REST feature service

Hi ​@zeliesch,

You can add a map service using the Esri ArcGIS Server Feature Service, as long as you don’t include the layer ID. For example, the following URL will work:

https://hosting.wsapi.cloud.bom.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/base_layers/Aust_State_boundary/MapServer

But the following will not:

https://hosting.wsapi.cloud.bom.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/base_layers/Aust_State_boundary/MapServer/0 

Thanks

Hi ​@churchfraser and thanks for your response!

Yes I have no issue adding a single Map Service like that, problem is I want to read all the map services included in this folder: https://egisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/open_data_donnees_ouvertes

And this is the URL I provide when I want to add the Esri ArcGIS Server Feature Service reader into FME.

If you open the link, you’ll see that there are wayyyy too many map services for me to add them individually…

Any idea what could I do in this situation?

Thanks again!

Well. Here is a solution you could try. It might not be the most elegant but it will give you a list of all service links that can then be used in a FeatureReader.

HTTP Caller » XMLFragmenter » StringReplacer(s) » FeatureReader

The site you are using does offer a site list = https://egisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/open_data_donnees_ouvertes?f=sitemap

So we can use the url in the HTTP Caller to query the service f=sitemap (see screencap1)

Then xml transformers should be able to get you to a list of mapservice urls.
I used a XMLFragmenter using “loc” and replaced leading and trailing junk with the string replacers eventually giving a list of some 600+ mapservices. With the list you can then do as you wish from there. There is definitely a more elegant solution using XML Transformers but hope this helps!!
 

​@crutledge thanks a lot! I will try this “not so elegant” way then ;)