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Geodatabase Feature Class properties

Summary

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".

Properties

Property Explanation Data Type

areaFieldName

(Read only)

The name of the geometry area field.

String

geometryStorage

(Read only)

Returns the geometry field storage.

  • Binary—Esri Binary storage

  • LOB—Esri LOB storage

  • WKB—OGC Well Known Binary storage

  • ST—Spatial Type storage

  • SDO—Oracle Spatial Type storage

  • PostGIS—PostgreSQL / PostGIS storage

  • MSSQLGeometry—SQLServer / GEOMETRY storage

  • MSSQLGeography—SQLServer / GEOGRAPHY storage

Note:

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

String

isCompressed

(Read only)

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

Boolean

lengthFieldName

(Read only)

The name of the geometry length field.

String

representations

(Read only)

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

Describe

Code sample

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)