GraphicsLayerView | API Reference | ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.31

Represents the LayerView of a GraphicsLayer after it has been added to a Map in either a MapView or SceneView.

The GraphicsLayerView is responsible for rendering a GraphicsLayer's features as graphics in the View. The methods in the GraphicsLayerView provide developers with the ability to query graphics in the view. See the code snippets in the methods below for examples of how to access client-side graphics from the view.

See also

GraphicsLayer

Property Overview

Any properties can be set, retrieved or listened to. See the Working with Properties topic.

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Type	Summary	Class
String	The name of the class.	Accessor
HighlightOptions	Options for configuring the highlight.	GraphicsLayerView
Layer	The layer being viewed.	LayerView
Boolean	Indicates if the spatialReference of the MapView is supported by the layer view.	LayerView
Boolean	Value is `true` if the layer is suspended (i.e., layer will not redraw or update itself when the extent changes).	LayerView
Boolean	Indicates if the layer view is making any updates that will impact what is displayed on the map.	LayerView
MapView\|SceneView	A reference to the MapView or SceneView associated with the layer view.	LayerView
Boolean	When `true`, the layer is visible in the view.	LayerView
Boolean	When `true`, the layer is visible in the view at the current scale.	LayerView
Boolean	When `true`, the layer is visible in the view's timeExtent.	LayerView

Property Details

declaredClass Inherited Property declaredClass Stringreadonly Inherited from Accessor Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.7 Accessor since 4.0, declaredClass added at 4.7.

The name of the class. The declared class name is formatted as esri.folder.className.

highlightOptions Property highlightOptions HighlightOptions Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.26 GraphicsLayerView since 4.4, highlightOptions added at 4.26.

Options for configuring the highlight. Use the highlight() method on the layer view to highlight a feature. The layerView's highlightOptions will take precedence over the view's highlightOptions if both properties are set.

Known Limitations

The highlightOptions on layer views are only supported in 2D MapView.

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Example

// Features in the layerview will be highlighted with bright
// yellow colors in the map.
const layerView = await view.whenLayerView(layer);
layerView.highlightOptions = {
  color: [255, 255, 0, 1],
  haloOpacity: 0.9,
  fillOpacity: 0.2
};

layer Inherited Property layer Layerreadonly Inherited from LayerView

The layer being viewed.

spatialReferenceSupported Inherited Property spatialReferenceSupported Booleanreadonly Inherited from LayerView Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.23 LayerView since 4.0, spatialReferenceSupported added at 4.23.

Indicates if the spatialReference of the MapView is supported by the layer view. When false layer view will be suspended.

See also

suspended

suspended Inherited Property suspended Booleanreadonly Inherited from LayerView

Value is true if the layer is suspended (i.e., layer will not redraw or update itself when the extent changes).

See also

spatialReferenceSupported

updating Inherited Property updating Booleanreadonly Inherited from LayerView

Indicates if the layer view is making any updates that will impact what is displayed on the map. For example, this value is true when renderer, definitionExpression, filter or effect is changed or if the layer view is in the process of the fetching data.

Watch dataUpdating property instead to only know when the data has been updated (e.g. to run statistics query on all feature available in the layer view).

Default Value:false

Example

// Check for the first time layerView.updating becomes false. Then query for
// features that are visible within the view associated with the layer view.
await reactiveUtils.whenOnce(() => !layerView.updating);
const query = layerView.createQuery();
query.geometry = layerView.view.extent;
const result = layerView.queryFeatures(query);

view Inherited Property view MapView |SceneViewreadonly Inherited from LayerView Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.28 LayerView since 4.0, view added at 4.28.

A reference to the MapView or SceneView associated with the layer view.

Example

// Check for the first time layerView.updating becomes false. Then query for
// features that are visible within the view associated with the layer view.
await reactiveUtils.whenOnce(() => !layerView.updating);
const query = layerView.createQuery();
query.geometry = layerView.view.extent;
const result = layerView.queryFeatures(query);

visible Inherited Property visible Boolean Inherited from LayerView

When true, the layer is visible in the view. Value of this property is inherited from the layer.visible unless the developer overrides it. The layerView.visible will take precedence over layer.visible if both properties are set.

Default Value:true

visibleAtCurrentScale Inherited Property visibleAtCurrentScale Booleanreadonly Inherited from LayerView Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.30 LayerView since 4.0, visibleAtCurrentScale added at 4.30.

When true, the layer is visible in the view at the current scale. This applies to layers that have minScale and maxScale properties set.

Known Limitations

This property is not supported in 3D SceneView tiled layers.

Default Value:true

See also

visibleAtCurrentTimeExtent
suspended

visibleAtCurrentTimeExtent Inherited Property visibleAtCurrentTimeExtent Booleanreadonly Inherited from LayerView Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.30 LayerView since 4.0, visibleAtCurrentTimeExtent added at 4.30.

When true, the layer is visible in the view's timeExtent. This applies to layers that have a visibilityTimeExtent.

Default Value:true

See also

visibleAtCurrentScale
suspended

Method Overview

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Return Type	Summary	Class
	Adds one or more handles which are to be tied to the lifecycle of the object.	Accessor
Boolean	Returns true if a named group of handles exist.	Accessor
Handle	Highlights the given feature(s) in a layer view.	GraphicsLayerView
Boolean	`isFulfilled()` may be used to verify if creating an instance of the class is fulfilled (either resolved or rejected).	LayerView
Boolean	`isRejected()` may be used to verify if creating an instance of the class is rejected.	LayerView
Boolean	`isResolved()` may be used to verify if creating an instance of the class is resolved.	LayerView
Promise<Collection<Graphic>>	Returns all graphics available for drawing in the layer view as a collection.	GraphicsLayerView
	Removes a group of handles owned by the object.	Accessor
Promise	`when()` may be leveraged once an instance of the class is created.	LayerView

Method Details

addHandles Inherited Method addHandles(handleOrHandles, groupKey) Inherited from Accessor Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.25 Accessor since 4.0, addHandles added at 4.25.

Adds one or more handles which are to be tied to the lifecycle of the object. The handles will be removed when the object is destroyed.

// Manually manage handles
const handle = reactiveUtils.when(
  () => !view.updating,
  () => {
    wkidSelect.disabled = false;
  },
  { once: true }
);

this.addHandles(handle);

// Destroy the object
this.destroy();

Parameters

handleOrHandles WatchHandle|WatchHandle []

Handles marked for removal once the object is destroyed.

groupKey *

optional

Key identifying the group to which the handles should be added. All the handles in the group can later be removed with Accessor.removeHandles(). If no key is provided the handles are added to a default group.

hasHandles Inherited Method hasHandles(groupKey){Boolean} Inherited from Accessor Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.25 Accessor since 4.0, hasHandles added at 4.25.

Returns true if a named group of handles exist.

Parameter

groupKey *

optional

A group key.

Returns

Type	Description
Boolean	Returns `true` if a named group of handles exist.

Example

// Remove a named group of handles if they exist.
if (obj.hasHandles("watch-view-updates")) {
  obj.removeHandles("watch-view-updates");
}

highlight Method highlight(target, group){Handle}

Highlights the given feature(s) in a layer view. The layerView's highlightOptions will take precedence over the view's highlights if both properties are set.

Release specific changes:

At version 4.23, the highlight() method was added to ImageryLayerView and it is only supported in 2D MapView.
As of version 4.31, the MapView.highlights property allows different highlights in the same layer view.

Parameters

optional

The feature(s) to highlight. When passing a graphic or array of graphics, each feature must have a valid objectID. You may alternatively pass one or more objectIDs as a single number, string or an array of numbers or strings.

group String

optional

The highlight group name. There are three named highlights group. The named groups can be used to highlight the features in the layerView with different highlights options. Defaults to "default" named group if not set.

Returns

Type	Description
Handle	Returns a highlight handler with a `remove()` method that can be called to remove the highlight.

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Examples

// highlight features based on a query result
let highlight;
view.whenLayerView(treesLayer).then(function(layerView){
  layerView.highlightOptions = {
    color: "#ff00ff", //bright fuchsia
    haloOpacity: 0.8,
    fillOpacity: 0.3
  };
  let query = treesLayer.createQuery();
  query.where = "type = 'Quercus'";
  treesLayer.queryFeatures(query).then(function(result){
    highlight?.remove();
    highlight = layerView.highlight(result.features);
  });
});

const view = new MapView({
  map: map,
  // set the highlight options for the view to use in this app
  highlights: new Collection([
    { name: "default", options: new HighlightOptions({color: "orange"}) },
    { name: "popup", options: new HighlightOptions({ color: "purple" }) },
    { name: "temporary", options: new HighlightOptions({ color: "magenta" }) },
  ])
});

// Search for features in the featureLayer at the hovered location
// highlight the first feature in the array with temporary highlight option
view.on("pointer-move", (event) => {
  view.hitTest(event, {include: featureLayer}).then((response) => {
    if (response.results.length) {
      // highlight the feature using the "temporary" highlight options
      const feature = response.results[0].graphic;
      layerView.highlight({ features: [feature], group: "temporary" });
    }
  });
});

// highlight feature on pointer-move
view.on("pointer-move", function(event){
  view.hitTest(event).then(function(response){
    if (response.results.length) {
      let graphic = response.results.filter(function (result) {
        return result.graphic.layer === treesLayer;
      })[0].graphic;

     view.whenLayerView(graphic.layer).then(function(layerView){
       layerView.highlight(graphic);
     });
    }
  });
});

isFulfilled Inherited Method isFulfilled(){Boolean} Inherited from LayerView

isFulfilled() may be used to verify if creating an instance of the class is fulfilled (either resolved or rejected). If it is fulfilled, true will be returned.

Returns

Type	Description
Boolean	Indicates whether creating an instance of the class has been fulfilled (either resolved or rejected).

isRejected Inherited Method isRejected(){Boolean} Inherited from LayerView

isRejected() may be used to verify if creating an instance of the class is rejected. If it is rejected, true will be returned.

Returns

Type	Description
Boolean	Indicates whether creating an instance of the class has been rejected.

isResolved Inherited Method isResolved(){Boolean} Inherited from LayerView

isResolved() may be used to verify if creating an instance of the class is resolved. If it is resolved, true will be returned.

Returns

Type	Description
Boolean	Indicates whether creating an instance of the class has been resolved.

queryGraphics Method queryGraphics(){Promise<Collection<Graphic>>} Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.8 GraphicsLayerView since 4.4, queryGraphics added at 4.8.

Returns all graphics available for drawing in the layer view as a collection.

Returns

Type	Description
Promise<Collection<Graphic>>	When resolved, a Collection of all graphics is returned.

Example

let layer = new GraphicsLayer();

// returns all the graphics from the layer view
const layerView = await view.whenLayerView(layer);
await reactiveUtils.whenOnce(() => !layerView.updating);
const results = await layerView.queryGraphics();
console.log(results);  // prints the array of client-side graphics to the console

removeHandles Inherited Method removeHandles(groupKey) Inherited from Accessor Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.25 Accessor since 4.0, removeHandles added at 4.25.

Removes a group of handles owned by the object.

Parameter

groupKey *

optional

A group key or an array or collection of group keys to remove.

Example

obj.removeHandles(); // removes handles from default group

obj.removeHandles("handle-group");
obj.removeHandles("other-handle-group");

when Inherited Method when(callback, errback){Promise} Inherited from LayerView Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.6 LayerView since 4.0, when added at 4.6.

when() may be leveraged once an instance of the class is created. This method takes two input parameters: a callback function and an errback function. The callback executes when the instance of the class loads. The errback executes if the instance of the class fails to load.

Parameters

callback Function

optional

The function to call when the promise resolves.

errback Function

optional

The function to execute when the promise fails.

Returns

Type	Description
Promise	Returns a new promise for the result of `callback` that may be used to chain additional functions.

Example

// Although this example uses MapView, any class instance that is a promise may use when() in the same way
let view = new MapView();
view.when(function(){
  // This function will execute once the promise is resolved
}, function(error){
  // This function will execute if the promise is rejected due to an error
});