Introduction to the ArcGIS for Server REST API

Description

This course explains what the ArcGIS for Server REST API is and how it helps you find GIS resources, discover their capabilities, and put them to use in your own maps and apps. You will learn how the REST API translates seemingly complex client-server communications into a friendly format you can easily interpret and leverage when working with other Esri products and applications.

Who Should Attend

• Developers who want to incorporate ArcGIS services into custom mobile, web, or lightweight desktop applications
• ArcGIS for Server administrators who need to manage ArcGIS services
• GIS professionals who regularly work with ArcGIS services

Learn How To

• Use the ArcGIS for Server Services Directory to find services and determine whether they meet the needs of a given project.
• Use the REST API Reference to understand the parameters, input values, and syntax required to perform operations on a service.
• Test services to verify they perform as expected.
• Apply a standard process to troubleshoot unexpected service errors.

To complete course exercises, you need the following software:

• ArcGIS Online

Introducing the REST API

• What is REST?
• What is the REST API?
• What can I do with the REST API?
• Get some REST
• Discovering available services
• Searching techniques
• Find data for a prototype map

Working with GIS services

• GIS resources and operations
• Anatomy of a RESTful URL
• Just put the REST over there...
• Communicating with GIS services
• Methods for sending requests
• Formatting the responses
• Testing a service's operations

Monitoring and troubleshooting GIS services

• Monitoring communications with an HTTP Monitor
• REST API troubleshooting workflow
• Investigating server-side issues
• Solve a server-side HTTP error
• Investigating client-side issues
• Solve a client-side HTTP error

• Completion of ArcGIS for Server: Sharing GIS Content on the Web or equivalent knowledge is required.
• Familiarity developing applications using one of the ArcGIS Web APIs or ArcGIS Runtime SDKs may be helpful, but is not required.