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I have a feaureLayer and I don't want to kill it and create another one. I want to delete all features from the current featureLayer. I found that I can use applyEdits method but in order ot use it I need to have all features I want to delete. Whilst I don't want to store them separetly. Do you know a better way to empty my featureLayer when using the ArcGIS Javascript API?

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Use featureLayer.selectFeatures() with, as Kirk suggested, a where clause that will return all your features. Once you have all your features, pass them to applyEdits() as the deletes.

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Won't this return a lot of features to the client? If this is a large dataset it could really be slow. – Kirk Kuykendall Jun 17 '11 at 16:37
The only problem is I can't specify the right where clause - I tried "1 = 1", "OBJECTID > 0", etc. But every time I have an error "FeatureLayer::selectFeatures - query contains one or more unsupported parameters". The code var query = new esri.tasks.Query(); query.where = "1 = 1"; featureLayer.selectFeatures(query, ...); – Kirill Lykov Jun 20 '11 at 5:46
Perhaps, if featurelayer is not connected with any feature service, it doen't support where clauses. What do you think? – Kirill Lykov Jun 20 '11 at 5:57
"if featurelayer is not connected with any feature service, it doen't support where clauses" - that's correct, but if so it also wouldn't support editing. From the API reference: "If the underlying layer ... is from a Feature Service, its features can be edited", implying that your featureLayer IS connected to a feature service – Stephen Lead Jun 21 '11 at 2:35
"it also wouldn't support editing" - I support editing even if it is not connected with service. Hovewer, I had to make some workarounds. – Kirill Lykov Jun 21 '11 at 10:44
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Try making a REST delete features call with a where clause "1 = 1" or something similar.

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hi is there any syntax to the REST delete features call? could you provide me an example as I am attempting to do that – jonleech Jan 10 at 2:57
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Use an Update Cursor, selecting all features ("*").

Use IFeature.Delete(), and store when done.

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This question is asking for a JavaScript solution, not ArcObjects. – Derek Swingley Jun 17 '11 at 16:21
Oops...my mistake! Please ignore. – ujjwalesri Jun 20 '11 at 11:59

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