The following are new features in version 2.1 of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.
When you reference the ArcGIS JavaScript API version 2.1, you get access to Dojo 1.5.
Read more about Dojo 1.5 here for more information.
Several new out of the box widgets were added to enhance developer productivity.
View the API reference and sample for more details.
Added the following new properties, methods, events and constants to existing objects.
setTickCount
method to the TimeSlider. This method allows you to specify the number of ticks to display on the slider.
version
property to ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer, ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer, ArcGISImageServiceLayer, and FeatureLayer. Added the capability
property to the ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer and ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer.
minScale
and maxScale
properties to LayerInfo.
esri.arcgis.utils.createMap
response object to include itemInfo with the following format:
itemInfo:{ item:<Object>, itemData:<Object> }The createMap method appends base for all basemap layers and operational for operational layers to the index of each layer in the map. This allows you to easily access either the basemap or operational layers.
var layers = response.itemInfo.itemData.operationalLayers;
In addition to the additions above, this release contains several bug fixes and enhancements including the following: