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I am trying to fetch the names of the layers in the MapService, so that I can populate them in the dijit.form.select. I am able to get the layerInfo when the ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer is added to the map by using,

map.getLayer(map.layerIds[0]).layerInfos[0].name

But this is only after the layer has been added to the map. Is there some way by which I can get the layerInfo names directly from the URL?

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Yes, send a request to the layer's URL to retrieve info as JSON and then pull out what you need. The Request Layer Info sample shows how to do this.

Edit: Here's a link to a tweaked version of the sample that shows querying a service for layer names: http://jsfiddle.net/Cuef5/ Note that the URL being used is for a map service:

http://sampleserver5.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Energy/Geology/MapServer

As opposed to using a URL for a single layer like:

http://sampleserver5.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Energy/Geology/MapServer/3
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  • thanks for the reply @Derek but this gives all the details of the attributes in the layer. I simply want the layer name, which we get from map.getLayer(map.layerIds[0]).layerInfos[0].name
    – Sam007
    Nov 7, 2012 at 6:30
  • @Sam007 there's no way to request only the names of the layers in a map service– you have to get all map service info, then navigate the returned object to access layer names. This is a quick, relatively cheap operation since it's a single request for not much data.
    – Derek Swingley
    Nov 7, 2012 at 15:17
  • The reason I need it is I am having a dijit.form.select where I am adding the map service names in the items and on selection of a map service, another dijit.select will be populated with the names of the layers in the selected map service. So I have the URL but not sure how to obtain only the layer names to populate them in the dropdown. This is my application, msgist2011.grd.arizona.edu/project/tp_dock.html, if u click on the Mapping the Data docked floating pane and then change selection u can see the layer list but I am not able to populate it with the appropriate name
    – Sam007
    Nov 7, 2012 at 17:04
  • I am getting the returned object but not sure how to navigate to the layer names? The link, help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/samples/…, gives the info of the layer's attribute table not the name
    – Sam007
    Nov 7, 2012 at 17:45
  • @Sam007 you'll need to query the map service endpoint instead of the endpoint for a particular layer. I've edited my answer with a link to a jsfiddle showing how to do this.
    – Derek Swingley
    Nov 7, 2012 at 19:47

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