Map image layer sublayer visibility

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Change the visibility of sublayers.

Image of map image layer sublayer visibility

Use case

A map image layer may contain many sublayers such as different types of roads in a road network or city, county, and state borders in a US map. The user may only be interested in a subset of these sublayers. Or, perhaps showing all of the sublayers would show too much detail. In these cases, you can hide certain sublayers by changing their visibility.

How to use the sample

Each sublayer has a check box which can be used to toggle the visibility of the sublayer.

How it works

  1. Create an ArcGISMapImageLayer object with the URL to a map image service.
  2. Get the SubLayerList with mapImageLayer.getSubLayers().
  3. For each layer in the sublayer list, set its visible property to true or false using .setVisible().

Relevant API

  • ArcGISMapImageLayer
  • SubLayerList

Tags

layer, sublayer, visibility

Sample Code

MapImageLayerSublayerVisibilitySample.java
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/*
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package com.esri.samples.map_image_layer_sublayer_visibility;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleBooleanProperty;
import javafx.geometry.Insets;
import javafx.geometry.Pos;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Alert;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.control.ListView;
import javafx.scene.control.cell.CheckBoxListCell;
import javafx.scene.layout.Background;
import javafx.scene.layout.BackgroundFill;
import javafx.scene.layout.CornerRadii;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.scene.paint.Paint;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.util.StringConverter;

import com.esri.arcgisruntime.ArcGISRuntimeEnvironment;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.layers.ArcGISMapImageLayer;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.layers.ArcGISSublayer;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.loadable.LoadStatus;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.ArcGISMap;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.BasemapStyle;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.Viewpoint;
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.MapView;

public class MapImageLayerSublayerVisibilitySample extends Application {

  private MapView mapView;

  @Override
  public void start(Stage stage) {

    try {
      // create a border pane and application scene
      StackPane stackPane = new StackPane();
      Scene scene = new Scene(stackPane);
      scene.getStylesheets().add(getClass().getResource("/map_image_layer_sublayer_visibility/style.css").toExternalForm());

      // size the stage and add a title
      stage.setTitle("Map Image Layer Sublayer Visibility Sample");
      stage.setWidth(800);
      stage.setHeight(700);
      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 control panel
      VBox controlsVBox = new VBox(6);
      controlsVBox.setBackground(new Background(new BackgroundFill(Paint.valueOf("rgba(0,0,0,0.3)"), CornerRadii.EMPTY,
              Insets.EMPTY)));
      controlsVBox.setPadding(new Insets(10.0));
      controlsVBox.setMaxSize(180, 130);
      controlsVBox.getStyleClass().add("panel-region");

      // create a ListView containing a CheckBox for the visibility of each sublayer
      var sublayersLabel = new Label("Sublayers");
      ListView<ArcGISSublayer> sublayersList = new ListView<>();
      sublayersList.setCellFactory(CheckBoxListCell.forListView(
          sublayer -> {
            // set visibility of sublayer when checkbox is clicked
            var visibleProperty = new SimpleBooleanProperty(sublayer.isVisible());
            visibleProperty.addListener((observable, oldValue, newValue) -> sublayer.setVisible(newValue));
            return visibleProperty;
          },
          new ArcGISSublayerStringConverter()));
      controlsVBox.getChildren().addAll(sublayersLabel, sublayersList);

      // create a map with the topographic basemap style
      ArcGISMap map = new ArcGISMap(BasemapStyle.ARCGIS_TOPOGRAPHIC);

      // create a map view and set the map to it
      mapView = new MapView();
      mapView.setMap(map);

      // set a viewpoint on the map view
      mapView.setViewpoint(new Viewpoint(48.354406, -99.998267, 147914382));

      // create an image Layer with dynamically generated ArcGISMap images
      ArcGISMapImageLayer imageLayer = new ArcGISMapImageLayer("https://sampleserver6.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/SampleWorldCities/MapServer");

      // add the image layer to the map's operational layers
      map.getOperationalLayers().add(imageLayer);

      // set the image layer's opacity so that the basemap is visible behind it
      imageLayer.setOpacity(0.7f);

      // set a done-loading listener on the layer
      imageLayer.addDoneLoadingListener(() -> {
        if (imageLayer.getLoadStatus() == LoadStatus.LOADED) {
          // set the layer's sublayers on the ListView
          sublayersList.setItems(imageLayer.getSublayers());
        } else {
          // show alert if layer fails to load
          new Alert(Alert.AlertType.ERROR, "Error loading Image Layer.").show();
        }
      });

      // add the map view and controls to the stack pane
      stackPane.getChildren().addAll(mapView, controlsVBox);
      StackPane.setAlignment(controlsVBox, Pos.TOP_LEFT);
      StackPane.setMargin(controlsVBox, new Insets(10, 0, 0, 10));

    } catch (Exception e) {
      // on any error, display the stack trace.
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void stop() {

    // releases resources when the application closes
    if (mapView != null) {
      mapView.dispose();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Starting point of this application.
   *
   * @param args arguments to this application.
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) {

    Application.launch(args);
  }

  /**
   * A StringConverter for displaying ArcGISSublayers. Simply displays the ArcGISSublayer's name.
   */
  private static class ArcGISSublayerStringConverter extends StringConverter<ArcGISSublayer> {
    @Override public String toString(ArcGISSublayer sublayer) {
      return sublayer.getName();
    }

    @Override public ArcGISSublayer fromString(String string) {
      return null;
    }
  }
}

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