getEntity (IProcess, String, Long) [Documentation]

Programmers Reference, Methods, IExecutionEngine Interface, getEntity, Index

public IEntity getEntity(IProcessparent, StringentityName, Long id)
throws AccessDeniedException,ExecutionException;

This method retrieves the specified instance of the specified business object.

note

Any large binary attributes (of the Binary, Document and Picture types) are not retrieved by this method – the value of the corresponding attributes will be null. To retrieve the values of the binary attributes use the getBinaryData method. The getEntity method also retrieves only single references of the object. To retrieve all references of the object, use getAllReferences method.

Parameters

`entityName`	the name of the business object to retrieve
`id`

Returns

The retrieved instance of the business object or null if the instance was not found.