Are character ids unique/how to find PlayFabId from character id

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Scott Brooks asked Nov 13, '19

There appears to be different answers around if character ids are unique or not.

This says that character ids are not unique and need to be evaluated with a playfab id

This thread https://community.playfab.com/answers/18242/view.html seems to say that character ids are unique. It also seems like the Entity API would require unique character ids as well.

Ultimately what I would like to do is to be able to find the associated playfab player id that belongs to a character id.

The suggestion in this thread seems like a bit of a hack. Anyway to do it with the Entity API?

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Answer 1 · 2019-11-13T08:24:15Z

Seth Du answered Nov 13, '19

Yes, you are able to call GetProfile or GetProfiles to retrieve the lineage information from the character. Here is an example:

Request:

{ 
  "Entity": 
  { 

	// your character ID
    "Id": "xxxxxxxxxxxx", 
    "Type": "character", 
    "TypeString": "character"  
  }
}

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