Update Metadata

• URL:https://<featurelayer-url>/metadata/update(POST only)
  
• Version Introduced:11.2

Description

The update operation updates the metadata for a hosted feature layer or table. When done, the operation returns a status URL that can be used to occasionally poll the status of the edits being made to the metadata. The status URL will return as COMPLETED once the edits have been made.

Request parameters

Parameter	Details
metadata	An XML object containing metadata for the layer. Syntax metadata=[<metadata xml:lang="en"> …. </metadata>] Example metadata=<metadata xml:lang="en"> <Esri> <CreaDate>20200118</CreaDate> <CreaTime>15191300</CreaTime> <ArcGISFormat>1.0</ArcGISFormat> <SyncOnce>TRUE</SyncOnce> </Esri> <dataIdInfo> <idCitation> <resTitle>Cities</resTitle> </idCitation> <idAbs/> <idCredit/> </dataIdInfo> </metadata>
f	The response format. The default format is html. Values: html | json | pjson

Example usage

The following is a sample POST request for the update operation:

POST /webadaptor/rest/services/SanFrancisco/311_Incidents/FeatureServer/0/metadata/update HTTP/1.1
Host: machine.domain.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: []

metadata=<metadata xml:lang="en">
<Esri>
<CreaDate>20200118</CreaDate>
<CreaTime>15191300</CreaTime>
<ArcGISFormat>1.0</ArcGISFormat>
<SyncOnce>TRUE</SyncOnce>
</Esri>
<dataIdInfo>
<idCitation>
<resTitle>Cities</resTitle>
</idCitation>
<idAbs/>
<idCredit/>
</dataIdInfo>
</metadata>
&f=pjson

JSON Response example

{"statusUrl": "https://machine.domain.com/webadaptor/rest/services/Hosted/example/FeatureServer/jobs/jbd9bc06f-81d7-4512-bc1c-1add7e558419"}