{{tag>Programmers_Reference Methods IExecutionEngine_Interface getEntities Index}}
====getEntities (IProcess, EntityIdAndName [])====
<code java>public IEntity [] getEntities(IProcessparent, EntityIdAndName [] entities)
throws AccessDeniedException, ExecutionException;</code>

This method retrieves the specified instances of the specified business objects. 

<callout type="primary" title="note" icon="true">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 binary attributes use the ''[[pr_methods:getbinarydata|getBinaryData]]'' method. . The getEntities method also retrieves only single references of the object. To retrieve all references of the object, use ''[[pr_methods:getallreferences|getAllReferences]]'' method.</callout>

===Parameters===

|''entities''|the names and unique id’s of the business object instances to retrieve|

===Returns===
the retrieved instances of the business objects or null if the instances were not found.