CARTO + Leaflet.draw example

CARTO + Leaflet.draw

A more complete, working version of this blog post for creating, editing, and deleting points from or to a CARTO points-geometry table. Some modifications would be needed on the front-end side to have this work for a polygons or lines table. CARTO has a limitation of only one type of geometry per table, so you would either want to limit users to Leaflet.draw'ing one geometry type, or otherwise creating new/separate functions and loading from separate tables for different types.

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title>Leaflet Draw</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://libs.cartocdn.com/cartodb.js/v3/3.15/themes/css/cartodb.css" />
  <script src="https://libs.cartocdn.com/cartodb.js/v3/3.15/cartodb.js"></script>

</head>
<body>
	<div id="map" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 80%; height: 80%;"></div>
	
	<script>
    //initialize the map with Leaflet
    var map = new L.Map('map', {center: new L.LatLng(40.7, -74), zoom: 11});

//add a carto basemap tile layer
    var carto = L.tileLayer('https://cartodb-basemaps-{s}.global.ssl.fastly.net/light_all/{z}/{x}/{y}@2x.png', {
        maxZoom: 18,
        attribution: '&copy; <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright">OpenStreetMap</a>, &copy; <a href="https://carto.com/attributions">CARTO</a>'
      }).addTo(map);

//prep the draw FeatureGroup and add Leaflet.draw controls to map
    var drawnItems = new L.FeatureGroup();
    var drawControl = new L.Control.Draw({
        position: 'topright',
        draw: {
            polyline: false,
            polygon: false,
            circle: false,
            rectangle: false,
            marker: true
        },
        edit: {
            featureGroup: drawnItems,
            remove: true
        }
    });
    map.addControl(drawControl);

//create cartodb.SQL object to grab geojson of table
    //see here https://carto.com/blog/the-versatility-of-retreiving-and-rendering-geospatial
    var sql = new cartodb.SQL({ user: 'athompson', format:'GeoJSON'});
    sql.execute("SELECT * FROM areas_of_interest_newyork_nycsanitation")
      .done(function(data) {

//add geojson features to the drawnItems FeatureGroup
        //console.log(data);//optional/debugging
        geojsonLayer = L.geoJson(data, {
          onEachFeature: function (feature, layer) {
            layer.cartodb_id=feature.properties.cartodb_id;
            drawnItems.addLayer(layer);
          }
          });
        //add the drawnItems FeatureGroup, populated with geojson from carto table, to the map
        map.addLayer(drawnItems);
      })
      .error(function(errors) {
        // errors contains a list of errors
        console.log("errors:" + errors);
      });

function persistOnCartoDB(action, layers) {
      /*
        this function interacts with the Security Definer
        function previously defined in our CARTO account.
        Gets an action (update, insert, or delete) and a list
        of GeoJSON objects (the geometry objects only, to work
        with ST_GeomFromGeojson()) with which to change the table.
        see https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/169219/invalid-geojson-when-inserting-data-to-a-cartodb-postgis-table-from-leaflet
      */
      var cartodb_ids = [];
      var geojsons = [];
      //console.log(action + " persistOnCartoDB");

switch (action) {
        case "UPDATE":
          //console.log(layers.getLayers().length);
          if (layers.getLayers().length < 1) return;

layers.eachLayer(function(layer) {
            cartodb_ids.push(layer.cartodb_id);
            geojsons.push("'" + JSON.stringify(layer.toGeoJSON().geometry) + "'");
          });
          break;

case "INSERT":
          cartodb_ids.push(-1);
          //console.log("here is the geojsons");
          //console.log(geojsons);
          //console.log("'" + JSON.stringify(layers.toGeoJSON().geometry) + "'");
          geojsons.push("'" + JSON.stringify(layers.toGeoJSON().geometry) + "'");
          break;

case "DELETE":
          layers.eachLayer(function(layer) {
            cartodb_ids.push(layer.cartodb_id);
            geojsons.push("''");
          });
          break;
      }

//constructs the SQL statement
      var sql = "SELECT nyc_sanitation_example_upsert_areas_of_interest_newyork_nycsanitation(ARRAY[";
      sql += cartodb_ids.join(",");
      sql += "],ARRAY[";
      sql += geojsons.join(",");
      sql += "]);";

console.log("persisting... " + sql);//optional/debugging
      //POST the SQL up to CARTO
      $.ajax({
        type: 'POST',
        url: 'https://athompson.carto.com/api/v2/sql',
        crossDomain: true,
        data: {
          "q": sql
        },
        dataType: 'json',
        success: function(responseData, textStatus, jqXHR) {
          console.log("Data saved");

if (action == "INSERT")
            layers.cartodb_id = responseData.rows[0].cartodb_id;
        },
        error: function(responseData, textStatus, errorThrown) {
          console.log("Problem saving the data " + responseData);
        }
      });
    }

//bind drawing events to fire the persistOnCartoDB() function

map.on('draw:created', function (e) {
      //console.log("draw:created fired");
      var layers = e.layer;//was e.layers not layer
      drawnItems.addLayer(layers);
      //console.log(e);
      persistOnCartoDB("INSERT", layers);
      //console.log("draw:created:insert persistOnCartoDB fired");
    });

map.on('draw:edited', function (e) {
      //console.log("draw:edited fired");
      var layers = e.layers;
      persistOnCartoDB("UPDATE", layers);
      //console.log("draw:edited:update persistOnCartoDB fired");
    });

map.on('draw:deleted', function (e) {
      //console.log("draw:deleted fired");
      var layers = e.layers;
      persistOnCartoDB("DELETE", layers);
      //console.log("draw:deleted:delete persistOnCartoDB fired");
    });

</script>
	</body>
</html>

Modified http://libs.cartocdn.com/cartodb.js/v3/3.15/cartodb.js to a secure url

https://libs.cartocdn.com/cartodb.js/v3/3.15/cartodb.js

https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/leaflet.draw/0.4.3/leaflet.draw.js