The ArcGIS Server REST API, short for Representational State
Transfer, provides a simple, open Web interface to services
hosted by ArcGIS Server. All resources and operations exposed by
the REST API are accessible through a hierarchy of endpoints or
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for each GIS service published
with ArcGIS Server. When using the REST API, you typically start
from a well-known endpoint, which represents the server catalog.
The table of contents for this Help system mimics the hierarchy
of resources in the REST API. The default start URL for an
ArcGIS Server installation is: For example, to get to the root
directory of ArcGIS Online services, the URL is: From this base
URL, you can traverse to any of the listed service and resources
and operations associated with the service. The REST API is
stateless, which means that REST does not keep track of
transactions from one request to the next. Each request must
contain all the information necessary for successful processing.
Each ArcGIS Server come