Geodatabase Feature Class properties

Synthèse

The Describe function returns the following properties for geodatabase feature classes. The Feature Class, Geodatabase Table, Editor Tracking Dataset, Table, and Dataset property groups are also supported.

For a geodatabase feature class, the Describe dataType property returns a value of "FeatureClass".

Propriétés

PropriétéExplicationType de données
areaFieldName
(Lecture seule)

The name of the geometry area field.

String
geometryStorage
(Lecture seule)

Returns the geometry field storage.

  • BinaryEsri Binary storage
  • LOBEsri LOB storage
  • WKBOGC Well Known Binary storage
  • STSpatial Type storage
  • SDOOracle Spatial Type storage
  • PostGISPostgreSQL / PostGIS storage
  • MSSQLGeometrySQLServer / GEOMETRY storage
  • MSSQLGeographySQLServer / GEOGRAPHY storage
Remarque :

Returns the storage type for enterprise geodatabase feature classes only; for all other feature classes, returns an empty string.

String
isCompressed
(Lecture seule)

Returns True if the feature class is compressed. For more details on geodatabase compression see Compress file geodatabase data.

Boolean
lengthFieldName
(Lecture seule)

The name of the geometry length field.

String
representations
(Lecture seule)

A list of Describe objects for the representations associated with the feature class.

Describe

Exemple de code

Geodatabase feature class properties example

The following stand-alone script displays the geodatabase feature class properties:

import arcpy

# Create a Describe object from the GDB Feature Class
#
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:/data/chesapeake.gdb/chesapeake/bayshed_1")

# Print GDB FeatureClass properties
#
print("Area Field Name  : " + desc.areaFieldName)
print("Length Field Name: " + desc.lengthFieldName)