Name/title field wrong way around for ArcGIS MapServer

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Author Name: Jonathan Moules (Jonathan Moules)
Original Redmine Issue: 22055
Affected QGIS version: 3.4.3
Redmine category:web_services_clients/arcgis
Assignee: Sandro Mani

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Take a look at this ArcGIS mapserver:

http://geoportal-geoportail.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/SpeciesatRisk/DFOCriticalHabitat_EN/MapServer

You'll see there are two layers. Connecting to this via QGIS it will show:
Title: 0
Name: DFO Species at Risk Critical Habitat 2016

But this is the wrong way around. The "title" field is meant to be the human representation (at least for OGC services), and the name field is meant to be the id for the layer.

Yes, I know that in the JSON (http://geoportal-geoportail.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/SpeciesatRisk/DFOCriticalHabitat_EN/MapServer/0?f=pjson) the "name" field actually has the layer title in it, but that's because ESRI are using the "name" as a OGC "title", and the "id" is the OGC "name".

[gioman]

http://geoportal-geoportail.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/SpeciesatRisk/DFOCriticalHabitat_EN/MapServer

this URL no longer works, is this still valid?

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