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Find features in a feature table which match an SQL query.

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Use case

Query expressions can be used in ArcGIS to select a subset of features from a feature table. This is most useful in large or complicated data sets. A possible use case might be on a feature table marking the location of street furniture through a city. A user may wish to query by a TYPE column to return "benches". In this sample, we query a U.S. state by STATE_NAME from a feature table containing all U.S. states.

How to use the sample

Input the name of a U.S. state into the text field. When you click "search", a query is performed and the matching features are highlighted or an error is returned.

How it works

  1. Create a ServiceFeatureTable using the URL of a feature service.
  2. Create a QueryParameters with a where clause specified using setWhereClause().
  3. Perform the query using queryFeaturesAsync(query) on the service feature table.
  4. When complete, the query will return a FeatureQueryResult which can be iterated over to get the matching features.

About the data

This sample uses U.S. State polygon features from the USA 2016 Daytime Population feature service.

Relevant API

  • FeatureLayer
  • FeatureQueryResult
  • QueryParameters
  • ServiceFeatureTable

Tags

Search and Query

Sample Code

FeatureLayerQuery.cppFeatureLayerQuery.cppFeatureLayerQuery.hFeatureLayerQuery.qml
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 // [WriteFile Name=FeatureLayerQuery, Category=Features] // [Legal] // Copyright 2016 Esri. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. // [Legal]  #ifdef PCH_BUILD #include "pch.hpp" #endif // PCH_BUILD  // sample headers #include "FeatureLayerQuery.h"  // ArcGIS Maps SDK headers #include "Basemap.h" #include "Feature.h" #include "FeatureIterator.h" #include "FeatureLayer.h" #include "FeatureQueryResult.h" #include "LayerListModel.h" #include "Map.h" #include "MapQuickView.h" #include "MapTypes.h" #include "MapViewTypes.h" #include "Point.h" #include "QueryParameters.h" #include "ServiceFeatureTable.h" #include "SimpleFillSymbol.h" #include "SimpleLineSymbol.h" #include "SimpleRenderer.h" #include "SpatialReference.h" #include "SymbolTypes.h" #include "Viewpoint.h"  // Qt headers #include <QColor> #include <QFuture> #include <QList> #include <QUrl> #include <QUuid>  // STL headers #include <memory>  using namespace Esri::ArcGISRuntime;  FeatureLayerQuery::FeatureLayerQuery(QQuickItem* parent) :  QQuickItem(parent) { }  FeatureLayerQuery::~FeatureLayerQuery() = default;  void FeatureLayerQuery::init() {  qmlRegisterType<MapQuickView>("Esri.Samples", 1, 0, "MapView");  qmlRegisterType<FeatureLayerQuery>("Esri.Samples", 1, 0, "FeatureLayerQuerySample"); }  void FeatureLayerQuery::componentComplete() {  QQuickItem::componentComplete();   // find QML MapView component  m_mapView = findChild<MapQuickView*>("mapView");  m_mapView->setWrapAroundMode(WrapAroundMode::Disabled);   // Create a map using the topographic basemap  m_map = new Map(BasemapStyle::ArcGISTopographic, this);  m_map->setInitialViewpoint(Viewpoint(Point(-11e6, 5e6, SpatialReference(102100)), 9e7));   // Set map to map view  m_mapView->setMap(m_map);   // create the feature table  m_featureTable = new ServiceFeatureTable(QUrl("https://services.arcgis.com/jIL9msH9OI208GCb/arcgis/rest/services/USA_Daytime_Population_2016/FeatureServer/0"), this);  // create the feature layer using the feature table  m_featureLayer = new FeatureLayer(m_featureTable, this);   // line symbol for the outline  SimpleLineSymbol* outline = new SimpleLineSymbol(SimpleLineSymbolStyle::Solid, QColor("black"), 2.0f, this);  // fill symbol  SimpleFillSymbol* sfs = new SimpleFillSymbol(SimpleFillSymbolStyle::Solid, QColor(255, 255, 0, 153), outline, this);  // create the renderer using the symbology created above  SimpleRenderer* renderer = new SimpleRenderer(sfs, this);  // set the renderer for the feature layer  m_featureLayer->setRenderer(renderer);  m_featureLayer->setMaxScale(10000);   // add the feature layer to the map  m_map->operationalLayers()->append(m_featureLayer);   connect(m_featureTable, &ServiceFeatureTable::loadStatusChanged, this, [this](LoadStatus loadStatus)  {  loadStatus == LoadStatus::Loaded ? m_initialized = true : m_initialized = false;  emit layerInitializedChanged();  }); }  bool FeatureLayerQuery::layerInitialized() const {  return m_initialized; }  void FeatureLayerQuery::runQuery(const QString& stateName) {  // create a query parameter object and set the where clause  QueryParameters queryParams;  queryParams.setWhereClause(QString("STATE_NAME LIKE '" + formatStateNameForQuery(stateName) + "%'"));  m_featureTable->queryFeaturesAsync(queryParams).then(this, [this](FeatureQueryResult* rawQueryResult)  {  auto queryResult = std::unique_ptr<FeatureQueryResult>(rawQueryResult);   if (queryResult && !queryResult->iterator().hasNext())  {  m_queryResultsCount = 0;  emit queryResultsCountChanged();  return;  }   // clear any existing selection  m_featureLayer->clearSelection();  QList<Feature*> features;   // iterate over the result object  while (queryResult->iterator().hasNext())  {  Feature* feature = queryResult->iterator().next(this);  // add each feature to the list  features.append(feature);  }   // select the feature  m_featureLayer->selectFeatures(features);  // zoom to the first feature  m_mapView->setViewpointGeometryAsync(features.at(0)->geometry(), 30);  // set the count for QML property  m_queryResultsCount = static_cast<int>(features.count());  emit queryResultsCountChanged();  }); }  QString FeatureLayerQuery::formatStateNameForQuery(const QString& stateName) const {  // format state names as expected by the service, for instance "Rhode Island"  if (stateName.isEmpty())  return QString();   const QStringList words = stateName.split(" ", Qt::SkipEmptyParts);  QStringList formattedWords;   for (const QString& word : words)  {  QString formattedWord = word.toLower();  formattedWord[0] = formattedWord[0].toUpper();  formattedWords.append(formattedWord);  }   return QString(formattedWords.join(" ")); }  int FeatureLayerQuery::queryResultsCount() const {  return m_queryResultsCount; }

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