Arcade: Add a function that quickly converts a Featureset into an Array

[JohannesLindner]

Please add a function that quickly converts a Featureset into an Array.

As discussed in this thread, it's sometimes necessary to convert a Featureset into an Array, but loading the Featureset takes a long time, especially accessing it for the first time.

So instead of this:

var fs = FeaturesetByPortalItem(Portal("https://arcgis.com"), "2b93b06dc0dc4e809d3c8db5cb96ba69", 0)
var fs_arr = []
for(var f in fs) {
    Push(fs_arr, Dictionary(Text(f)))
}
return fs_arr

It would be helpful (and hopefully much faster) to have a function like this:

var fs = FeaturesetByPortalItem(Portal("https://arcgis.com"), "2b93b06dc0dc4e809d3c8db5cb96ba69", 0)
var fs_arr = FeaturesetToArray(fs)
return fs_arr

[jcarlson]

Please let me upvote this twice. This is desperately needed, and doesn't seem like something that would be that difficult to do, given that a FeatureSet's features object actually is an array.

[Vinzafy]

Full support for this idea! Being able to store feature sets as an array stored in local RAM as opposed to constantly pinging the server with requests is incredibly valuable in common workflows (e.g., joining tables programmatically).

This is not only beneficial for users, but also reduced significant burden on servers as a single script that previously sent hundreds to thousands of requests on the server now only sends one for each initial FeatureSet call.

And like @jcarlson mentioned, features objects are already arrays!

[GregoryWhitaker]

Upvote. Landed here searching for any which way to do exactly this. Related, a way to decode the feature set (and work directly with the object) like json dumps/loads would be nice too.