Labeling features is useful to visually display a key piece of information or attribute of a feature on a map. For example, you may want to label rivers or streets with their names.
How to use the sample
Pan and zoom around the United States. Labels for congressional districts will be shown in red for Republican districts and blue for Democrat districts. Notice how labels pop into view as you zoom in.
How it works
Create a ServiceFeatureTable using a feature service URL.
Create a FeatureLayer from the service feature table.
Create a TextSymbol to use for displaying the label text.
Create an ArcadeLabelExpression for the label definition.
You can use fields of the feature by using $feature.field_name in the expression.
Create a new LabelDefinition from the arcade label expression and text symbol.
Add the definition to the feature layer with featureLayer.getLabelDefinitions().add(labelDefinition).
Lastly, enable labels on the layer using featureLayer.setLabelsEnabled().
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*/package com.esri.samples.show_labels_on_layer;
import java.util.Arrays;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Alert;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.ArcGISRuntimeEnvironment;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.arcgisservices.LabelDefinition;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.arcgisservices.LabelingPlacement;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.data.ServiceFeatureTable;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.geometry.Point;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.geometry.SpatialReferences;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.layers.FeatureLayer;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.loadable.LoadStatus;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.ArcGISMap;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.BasemapStyle;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.labeling.ArcadeLabelExpression;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.MapView;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.symbology.TextSymbol;
publicclassShowLabelsOnLayerSampleextendsApplication{
private MapView mapView;
@Overridepublicvoidstart(Stage stage){
try {
// create stack pane and application scene StackPane stackPane = new StackPane();
Scene scene = new Scene(stackPane);
// size the stage, add a title, and set scene to stage stage.setTitle("Show Labels on Layer Sample");
stage.setHeight(700);
stage.setWidth(800);
stage.setScene(scene);
stage.show();
// authentication with an API key or named user is required to access basemaps and other location services String yourAPIKey = System.getProperty("apiKey");
ArcGISRuntimeEnvironment.setApiKey(yourAPIKey);
// create a map with the light gray basemap style ArcGISMap map = new ArcGISMap(BasemapStyle.ARCGIS_LIGHT_GRAY);
// create a map view and set the map to it mapView = new MapView();
mapView.setMap(map);
// set the initial viewpoint near the center of the US mapView.setViewpointCenterAsync(new Point(-10846309.950860, 4683272.219411, SpatialReferences.getWebMercator()), 20000000);
// create a feature layer from an online feature service of US Congressional Districts String serviceUrl = "https://services.arcgis.com/P3ePLMYs2RVChkJx/arcgis/rest/services/USA_116th_Congressional_Districts/FeatureServer/0";
var serviceFeatureTable = new ServiceFeatureTable(serviceUrl);
var featureLayer = new FeatureLayer(serviceFeatureTable);
// add the feature layer to the map map.getOperationalLayers().add(featureLayer);
// show alert if layer fails to load featureLayer.addDoneLoadingListener(() -> {
if (featureLayer.getLoadStatus() != LoadStatus.LOADED) {
new Alert(Alert.AlertType.ERROR, "Error loading Feature Layer.").show();
}
});
// create label definitions for each party LabelDefinition republicanLabelDefinition = makeLabelDefinition("Republican", Color.RED);
LabelDefinition democratLabelDefinition = makeLabelDefinition("Democrat", Color.BLUE);
// enable labels on the feature layer featureLayer.setLabelsEnabled(true);
// add the definitions to the feature layer featureLayer.getLabelDefinitions().addAll(Arrays.asList(republicanLabelDefinition, democratLabelDefinition));
// add the map view to stack pane stackPane.getChildren().add(mapView);
} catch (Exception e) {
// on any error, display stack trace e.printStackTrace();
}
}
/**
* Creates a label definition for a given party (field value) and color to populate a text symbol with.
*
* @param party the name of the party to be passed into the label definition's WHERE clause
* @param color the color to be passed into the text symbol
*
* @return label definition created from the given arcade expression
*/private LabelDefinition makeLabelDefinition(String party, Color color){
// create text symbol for styling the labelvar textSymbol = new TextSymbol();
textSymbol.setSize(12);
textSymbol.setColor(color);
textSymbol.setHaloColor(Color.WHITE);
textSymbol.setHaloWidth(2);
// create a label definition with an Arcade expression scriptvar arcadeLabelExpression =
new ArcadeLabelExpression("$feature.NAME + \" (\" + left($feature.PARTY,1) + \")\\nDistrict \" + $feature.CDFIPS");
var labelDefinition = new LabelDefinition(arcadeLabelExpression, textSymbol);
labelDefinition.setPlacement(LabelingPlacement.POLYGON_ALWAYS_HORIZONTAL);
labelDefinition.setWhereClause(String.format("PARTY = '%s'", party));
return labelDefinition;
}
/**
* Stops and releases all resources used in application.
*/@Overridepublicvoidstop(){
// release resources when the application closesif (mapView != null) {
mapView.dispose();
}
}
/**
* Opens and runs application.
*
* @param args arguments passed to this application
*/publicstaticvoidmain(String[] args){
Application.launch(args);
}
}