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    Session: How to Get Entity ID

    Entities does not have to contain an ID property or field. In the case of such an entity, and a need for knowing under what ID it is stored on the server, the GetDocumentId method was created.

    Syntax

    string GetDocumentId(object entity);
    Parameters
    entity object Instance of an entity for which an ID will be returned
    Return Value
    string Returns the ID for a specified entity. The method may return null if entity is null, isn't tracked, or the ID will be generated on the server.

    Example

    public class Comment
{
	public string Author { get; set; }

	public string Message { get; set; }
}

    string commentId = session
	.Advanced
	.GetDocumentId(comment); // e.g. comments/1-A

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