shrug-l: Python JSON

[Keith Sandell]

Hey Shruggers,

Has anybody written any Python code to create a JSON representation of a featureclass, specifically a featureCollection that can be consumed in a Javascript API app as a FeatureLayer?

Similar, or rather the same, to what is returned from the Portal API in the Javacript API sample "Add Shapefile": http://help.arcgis.com/EN/webapi/javascript/arcgis/help/jssamples/portal_addshapefile.html

Or is there an arcpy function that can do this? (I don't think so, but I could have missed it)

Just want to check before I run off and recreate the wheel.

The GPFeatureRecordSetLayer that is returned by a geoprocessing service is too light weight, i.e. lacks many of the JSON object name/value pairs of shapefile attribute information for what I am doing.

Thanks

Keith Sandell, MBA
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