urlUtils and itemUtils: application-level modules?

[esri]

urlUtils and itemUtils: application-level modules?

[kellyhutchins]

Those are the standard url parameters from ArcGIS Online that we'd like all the configurable apps to support so my vote is that they stay in app base.

[alaframboise]

Thanks @kellyhutchins. I wish I would have known this as I use totally different params to configure the view, marker, search...

Is this documented somewhere?

[kellyhutchins]

Probably not. We had an issue in devtopia for the app developers when we first started supporting the url params and then we added the urlUtils support to the boilerplate.

[alaframboise]

Is this what the Map Viewer uses/will use in the future?

[kellyhutchins]

The parameters themselves are doc'd in ArcGIS Online doc.
http://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/reference/use-url-parameters.htm

Although we don't use all of them.

[alaframboise]

Oh man. I don't use extent at all and use center, scale, zoom... since the map and view has changed a lot at 4.x.

There's other stuff in there too that can conflict with apps. E.g. my app uses and clears the view.graphics...

https://github.com/Esri/application-base-js/blob/master/support/itemUtils.js#L109

Plus I also see this in here for loading the view (but not in the AGO doc). I did this totally differently...

https://github.com/Esri/application-base-js/blob/master/support/itemUtils.js#L38

[alaframboise]

And for basemap url params, we might want to add something to accept the actual name string. e.g. streets-vector

[driskull]

@alaframboise if you don't want the mixins, you don't have to use them. They are all apart of the helper methods your app doesn't have to call.