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Add Features (Operation)
URL http://<featurelayer-url>/addFeatures (POST only)
Parent Resource Layer
Required Capability Create

Description

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.

Parameters

Parameter Details
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: Example:
[
  {
    "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
    }
  }
]
gdbVersion //This option was added at 10.1

Description: GeoDatabase version to apply the edits. This parameter applies only if isDataVersioned property of the layer is true.
If this is not specified, edits are made to published map’s version.

Syntax:
gdbVersion=<version>
Example:
gdbVersion=SDE.DEFAULT
rollbackOnFailure //This option was added at 10.1

Description: Optional parameter to specify if the edits should be applied only if all submitted edits succeed. If false, server will keep the edits that succeed even if some of the submitted edits fail. If true, server will keep the edits only if all edits succeed. The default value is true.

Not all data supports setting this parameter. Query the supportsRollbackonFailureParameter property of the layer to determine whether or not a layer supports setting this parameter. If supportsRollbackonFailureParameter = false for a layer, then when editing this layer, rollbackOnFailure will always be true, regardless of how the parameter is set. However, if supportsRollbackonFailureParameter = true, this means the rollbackOnFailure parameter can be set to true or false on edit operations.

Syntax: rollbackOnFailure=true|false

Example: rollbackOnFailure=true

Example Usage

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
      }
    }
]

JSON Response Syntax

{
  "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>",
      }
    }
  ]
}

JSON Response Example

{
  "addResults": [
   {
    "objectId": 617,
    "success": true
   },
   {
    "success": false,
    "error": {
     "code": -2147217395,
     "description": "Setting of Value for depth failed."
    }
   }
  ]
}