Custom global search provider stopped working

May 08, 2017 08:52

Hi,

I build a custom global search provider that queries an external geocoding service. This worked perfect in the HTML viewer 2.3: When clicking on a result, the map zooms in to show a pinpoint or a polygon (depending on the type of result), and the attributes were shown too.

I tested the same code with HTML viewer 2.6 and 2.7, and although the results are show in the result list, I only see a pinpoint (even for polygons), I can't zoom in, and I see no attributes. I checked this in the browser's debugger, and I can see that both the geometry and the attributes are filled correctly, so that is not what's going wrong here.

This is the code that I use to generate a featureset:

var featureSet = new infrastructure.FeatureSet();
featureSet.displayName.set("Geocoding results");
featureSet.iconUri.set(this.iconUrl);

for (var i: number = 0; i < docs.length; i++) {
    var attributes: any = {};
    for (var p in docs[i]) {
        if (docs[i].hasOwnProperty(p)) {
            attributes[p] = docs[i][p];
        }
    }

    var geometry = this.parseWkt(docs[i].geometrie_rd);
    var graphic = new esri.Graphic(geometry, null, attributes);
    var feature = new infrastructure.Feature({ graphic: graphic });
    feature.labelFormat.set("{weergavenaam}");
    featureSet.addFeature(feature);
}

this.setStatusIdle();

I was wondering if anything has changed in the viewer itself with regards to the search provider?

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4 comments

Berend Veldkamp

September 06, 2017 13:27
I'm still struggling with this issue, hopefully someone at Latitude can shed some light here?

I just tested with HTML viewer 2.9, and it still doesn't work. Some things I found out:
- In this viewer there's a new option to zoom to all search results, and this works.
- If I select a search result, press the ... button and then select 'Zoom to feature', this works
- If I switch to Table View, selecting a row also selects and zooms to that feature
- I still cannot open the attributes of a search result
- Clicking on a feature in the search result list does nothing.
- I tried the GeoNamesSearchProvider that comes with the samples of the HTML viewer, this one has the same problems
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Permanently deleted user

December 07, 2017 22:38
Hi Berend,

Looks like the sample site online is also [still] broken, so we'll get someone to look into that.

I suspect that there is a new requirement when dynamically generating the FeatureSet; perhaps we now have to add it to a FeatureSetCollection or tell the viewer that it is allowed to own (and thus present attributes for) this Featureset.

Regards,

-Malcolm
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Berend Veldkamp

December 08, 2017 07:58
My colleague discovered two small mistakes I made:
- In ResourceManifest.xml I had set Library="false"
- The name of the library did not match the one in [device].json.js
So I guess a newer version of the viewer is more strict.
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Permanently deleted user

December 18, 2017 22:24
OK Berend, with those adjustments were you able to get your code to work? If not let us know.

Regards,

-Malcolm
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