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ArcGISOnlineConnector URL WMS upload

  • November 20, 2025
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jonathanklarup
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Hi, 
I have a list of 100+ WMS services our company is using in a plugin for QGIS. 
I’d like to publish these to our enterprise portal, and I thought the ArcGISOnlineConnector seemed like the right choice, due to it haven the setting:


Action: Upload

URL : WMS URL https://***.net/geoserver/dai/wms?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.3.0
 

URL Item Type: WMS ? 

 

My error is :
ERROR |Message Type: fme::internal::_v0::py::Exception
ERROR |Python Exception <TypeError>: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType
ERROR |Error encountered while calling method `input'
FATAL |ArcGISOnlineConnector_CALLER (PythonFactory): PythonFactory failed to process feature
 

What have I misunderstood ? Or is there a better option ? 
Thanks in advance. 

 

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    donalmateer
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    • donalmateerSafer
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    • November 21, 2025

    Hey ​@jonathanklarup ,

    Looks like the issue is just with the action you picked. “Upload” in the ArcGISOnlineConnector (and the Portal version) is meant for file-based content like ZIP shapefiles, CSVs, SDs, or TPKXs.

    That action expects a local file path, so when you feed it a WMS URL instead, it ends up trying to open a path that doesn’t exist — hence the error:

    TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

    Your WMS is URL-based, not a file, so “Upload” isn’t the right action here.

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