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ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

Version 1.5 of the ArcGIS JavaScript API is now available! To take advantage of the new version, change your script reference to the ArcGIS JavaScript API to use v= 1.5, like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://serverapi.arcgisonline.com/jsapi/arcgis/?v=1.5" />

Version 1.5 adds:

  • Support for Firefox 3.5
  • Support for Dojo 1.3.2
  • Ability to force a mouse cursor style change
  • Optional HTTPS access of the ArcGIS JavaScript API
  • Bug fixes

For more details on these items, take a look at the What's New in Version 1.5 document.

The ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for the Google Maps API and the ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for Microsoft Virtual Earth (now Bing Maps) were not updated at this release.

Published Friday, October 02, 2009 9:17 AM by sterlingdq
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# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

Any news for a debug version that can be compiled in a custom built dojo layer ?
Friday, October 02, 2009 4:42 PM by Lonely dev

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

What is the reason for not updating the google maps API extension js library? Is an update to this library coming soon?
Sunday, October 04, 2009 4:49 PM by Adam

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

Why so few fixes and enhancements? I'd hoped for much more.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 6:46 AM by Brendan Carroll

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

@Brendan- Please tell us what you were hoping to see in this release. A lot of work is going on for the 2.0 release which is planned to correspond with the release of ArcGIS 9.4. There may also be another 1.x release before that time. This is a very good time to submit suggestions.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009 9:36 AM by sterlingdq

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

@Adam- We'd like to hear if there are any enhancements you'd like to see in the Google Maps API extension for future releases. Enhancements to this library in the future are still a possibility.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009 9:40 AM by sterlingdq

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

Where is the best place to submit our suggestions? I would like to suggest editing support.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 9:43 AM by Tim

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

Thanks for the response, Sterling. Off the top of my head... The idea of working with the layer definitions of a dynamic map service lets you do fantastic things. Where it falls flat on its face is whe it is not honored by Queries or Identifies. First of all, this needs to be noted (in bold) in the documentation to help developers save some frustration. Second, it needs to be fixed so that setting a layer defintion really does "filter the features" and not just "filter the display of the features". With respect to Google's api and what they have available, it would be nice to control the draw order of both dynamic and tiled services. I would also suggest some way to return Renderer information (breaks, colors, etc.). In the ESRI AGS JS API, there is a great esri.renderer library and something that returns the same type of information maybe as a utility class could be extremely useful. I also agree there needs to be a central place for developers to submit suggestions/enhancements. Implementing a voting-style approach for this central location for the community would be mutually benefical. That way, I wouldn't have to type all of this in a comment on a blog post :) Thanks!
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 10:32 AM by Adam

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

@Tim- You can submit your suggestions as comments to the post and I will make sure they are read by the development team. Editing support is probably our most requested enhancement and is a version 2.0 project, planned for release in concurrency with ArcGIS 9.4.

@Adam-  Thanks for taking the time to write these suggestions and I'll pass them on to the team.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:03 AM by sterlingdq

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

In regards to editing, please provide a data table where the attributes can be edited. I'm looking for the same kind of functionality that ArcMap provides but simplified for the web. For example, when a row is selected in the data table then highlight the corresponding feature in the map and vice versa.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:03 PM by Tim

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

A couple of roadmap related items: I'd like to see ESRI move away from Dojo as a whole. At 145kb it's entirely to large. If it's only gfx that's needed move to another api like Raphael which is 20kb compressed, uses vml and svg and is extensible. Lots of javascript devs don't want to be married to a single api and neither should ESRI yet there's a smattering of Dojo throughout. Also, it seems to me the relationship of the javascript api to the soap api is becoming a lot like the old ActiveX to ArcXML relationship...not fully implemented. Finally, it seems to that the javascript api has only half-heartedly adopted JSON throughout.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 2:30 PM by Brendan Carroll

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

I would like to see better printing possibilities. Be able to print the map together with graphics layer in CORRECT scale with scalebar. All examples out there have one or more drawbacks which makes print still impossible (amzing that it is still like this after all these years). Another example is to get map including graphics layer as an image so it is possible to include several images into different place in the printout. Route description with start/end picture wit via-point pictures.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:41 AM by Mikael

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

I'd like to see support to the symbols of the feature classes. Like to be able to get what is the symbol of a Hydrant feature class for example.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:10 PM by Rafael Coutinho

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

Repeating using my account:  I'd like to see support to the symbols of the feature classes. Like to be able to get what is the symbol of a Hydrant feature class for example.

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:31 PM by rcouto

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

I would like to see better implementation of the build.

Get dojo out of the build. I use the googleapis dojo hosting anyway. That way anyone who has ever visited Amazon already has dojo cached. (But I make extensive use of other aspects of dojo, so I disagree with moving away from dojo.)

Break up esri.js into individual classes so dojo.require can be used properly. Many people are only going to be using an esri "core" rather than the entire range of functions.

Add in a build capacity and it becomes very easy to minimize the site load.

While you are at it, fix up the serverapi site's etags and expire headers to make it more caching compatible

Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:27 AM by lordcasb

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

Create a section within the Resource Center to let Developers submit feedback about enhancements and bugs and make sure it is publicly visible.

See http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/list as an example.

Adam

Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:32 AM by ajpfister06

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

Perhaps fork the project...Dojo/Raphael/Canvas etc.... I agree breaking up esri.js into classes would be beneficial, leading to a smaller 'core' download for the majority of users.
Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:21 PM by Brendan Carroll

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

Yet again, lordcasb and Brendan to the point, break that thing down, get a "debug" version out, or file-separated classes. We can already parse the code to do that manually, why not releasing it ? Offer both! That way users wanting optimized dojo builds will get it, and the core will get way smaller for others wanting minimal functionality.
Thursday, October 08, 2009 7:06 PM by Lonely dev

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

Will a download-able version of 1.5 be available soon?
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:48 PM by Naeem Bari

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

Where can I find the complete list of bug fixes?

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 5:43 AM by hbostic

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

I would like to see printing/export support
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 5:44 AM by hbostic

# re: ArcGIS JavaScript API 1.5 released

Also, I'd like to see at least the option to have the map "wrap" around. This is extremely useful when showing import/export flows as well as other navigational data. Right now using any of the API's (except Google/Bing) there is no way to show a trade route from Australia to Japan that is visually pleasing (or acceptable). Adam
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:46 AM by Adam

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