Item Information

URL:
https://<root>/services/<serviceName>.<serviceType>/itemInfo
Methods:
GET
Operations:
Delete, Edit, Upload
Required Capability:
Access allowed with any authorized privilege
Version Introduced:
10.1

Description

The iteminfo resource stores metadata about a service. Typically, this information is available to clients that want to index or harvest information about the service. Item information is represented in JSON format defined by the schema described below. It can optionally contain thumbnail images associated with the service. The thumbnail images can be accessed with a URL by appending the path of the image to this item information URL.

If the thumbnail is stored under thumbnail/image.jpg, the URL to access this image will be as follows:

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https://machine.domain.com/webadaptor/admin/services/<folder>/<service>/iteminfo/thumbnail/image.jpg

Request parameters

ParameterDescription

f

The response format. The default response format is html.

Values: html | json | pjson

Property name differences

Some of the properties in the item information are visible in ArcGIS Server Manager when you view the service's properties and click the Item Description page. These properties are listed in the following table:

Property in ArcGIS Server ManagerProperty in JSON format

Summary

"summary"

Tags

"tags"

Description

"description"

Access and Use Constraints

"licenseInfo"

Credits

"accessInformation"

Example usage

The following is a sample request URL used to access the itemInfo resource:

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https://machine.domain.com/webadaptor/admin/services/Maps/Test.MapServer/itemInfo?f=pjson

JSON Response syntax

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{
  "culture": "<culture>",
  "name": "<namegt>",
  "thumbnail": "<thumbnail folder>",
  "guid": "<guid>",
  "catalogpath": "<path>",
  "snippet": "<snippet>",
  "description": "<description>",
  "summary": "<summary>",
  "title": "<title>",
  "tags": "<tags>",
  "type": "<type>",
  "text": "<text>",
  "typekeywords": [
    "<keyword1>",
    "<keyword2>"
  ],
  "documentation": "<documentation>",
  "url": "<url>",
  "datalastmodifiedtime": "<time>",
  "extent": <extent>,
  "spatialreference": "<spatial reference>",
  "accessinformation": "<access information>",
  "licenseinfo": "<license information>"
}

JSON Response example

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{
  "Culture": "en-US",
  "name": "usa",
  "thumbnail": "thumbnail/image.jpg",
  "guid": "FD09F5FF-4031-49D4-8BD3-B310728C8FF7",
  "catalogpath": "",
  "snippet": "",
  "description": "",
  "summary": "",
  "title": "usa.mxd",
  "tags": "",
  "type": "Service Definition",
  "Text": "",
  "typekeywords": [
    "Shapefile Feature Class",
    "ArcGIS",
    "Service Definition",
    ".sd"
  ],
  "documentation": "",
  "url": "",
  "datalastmodifiedtime": "",
  "extent": {
    "xmin": -178.217598362366,
    "ymin": 18.9247817993163,
    "xmax": -66.9692710360024,
    "ymax": 71.4071353542713
  },
  "spatialreference": "Unknown",
  "accessinformation": "",
  "licenseinfo": ""
}

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