Description
(Added at v3.12)
(Currently in beta)
The base class for all LocationProviders. This class has no constructor. A provider takes a set of records or features that do not have a geometry associated with it and locates or generates a geometry based on an attribute field that contains some location information such as Street, City or Zip code.
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Events
[ On Style Events | Connect Style Event ]
All On Style event listeners receive a single event object. Additionally, the event object also contains a 'target' property whose value is the object which fired the event.
Property Details
The geometry type of the returned features.
Known values: "esriGeometryPoint" | "esriGeometryPolygon" | "esriGeometryPolyline"
Returns true when the load event has been fired.
Known values: true | false
Method Details
Assigns geometries to the array of Graphic objects.
Parameters:
<Graphic[] > features |
Required |
An array of Graphic objects. |
<Object > options |
Optional |
Optional parameters. See the Object Specifications table below for the structure of the options object. |
Object Specifications: <options
>
<SpatialReference > outSpatialReference |
Required |
Spatial reference of the output geometry. Defaults to 4326 when not provided. |
<Boolean > useExistingGeometries |
Required |
A property to notify whether geometry should be located for Graphic object that already has a geometry. The default value is false . |
Event Details
[ On Style Events | Connect Style Event ]
Fires when an error occurs during locate.
Fires after the provider has loaded. The locate method can be called after this event.
Fires when the locate has completed.
Event Object Properties:
<Graphic[] > failed |
An array of the features that failed to complete successfully. |
<Graphic[] > features |
An array of the completed features. |
Fires when the locate() method is in progress.
Fires when an error occurs during locate.
Fires after the provider has loaded. The locate method can be called after this event.
Fires when the locate has completed.
Event Object Properties:
<Graphic[] > features |
An array of the completed features. |
<Graphic[] > failed |
An array of the features that failed to complete successfully. |
(Need clarification) Fires when the locate is in progress.