GeoServer – Accessing GeoServer WFS Services in ArcGIS Online Map Viewer

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Has anyone was able to add GeoServer WFS service into ArcGIS Online map viewer? By this I mean having an ArcGIS Online account (either free or for Organizations), logging in and adding layers from the web.

I have no problems adding a WMS service such as this one
http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wfs?service=wfs&version=1.0.0&request=getfeature&typename=topp%3astates. It is being retrieved and drawn nicely in ArcGIS Online map viewer.

What about the WFS services? When trying to add this service (which should be a WFS?) http://suite.opengeo.org/geoserver/wfs?service=wfs&version=1.1.0&request=GetFeature&typename=usa:states&featureid=states.23, I am getting only images (somehow "redirected" to WMS maybe?). OGC things are not really my strongest skills.

Is it possible to get raw vector data (served by GeoServer) instead of map images into the ArcGIS Online map viewer? Any workarounds to get it from GeoServer via some other source into ArcGIS Online?

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It would seem that at this time WFS is not supported within the ArcGIS Online viewer. However this functionality may be added in the future, possibly as soon as Fall 2015. According to a post on this geonet thread:

There are plans to provide WFS support within the map viewer. We are looking at different options, and it may be late 2015 by the time we can support this. At this time, we are looking at possible options. Sorry, I cannot provide more specifics at this time.

Also attempting to wrap a WFS feature as a ArcGIS feature layer is difficult. As far as I know only a hosted feature layer/ArcGIS server will support WFS like functionality (creating, deleting, and editing features). I'm not sure what your specific needs are but I was able to sign up for a free ArcGIS developers account (this comes with 50 credits a month) and was able to upload and host my feature layer for free. Once the feature layer was created I could add it to the map viewer and have WFS like functionality.

Note: I dont work for or represent Esri. My suggestions are simply based on prior experience and workarounds.

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I got this to work. Here is how:

1) Forget the proxy, add you url to the esri corsEnabledServers like this:

esriConfig.defaults.io.corsEnabledServers.push([URL]:[PORT]);

notice that you need to include the port of it's non standard (cause geoserver usually uses 8080 that's not that of an unusual case)

2) For whatever reason, not sure if this is ESRI or geoserver using WFS version 1.0.0 works but using 1.1.0 does not. Both geoserver and the esri javascript API claim to support 1.1.0, so not sure what the deal is there.

That should make this work. That said I have to add a word of caution. The whole point of using a WFS instead of another solution like WMS or WCS is to access features, not tiles. ESRI's WFS layer doesn't inherit from ESRI's FeatureLayer so its functionality is very limited. I will be posting another question on using attribute based renderers, but I fear it may not be supported.

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