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UniqueIdLookupService

Team Create service that maps UniqueId to and from RFC-4122 strings; not for experience scripts.

This class is not creatable. Instances of this class cannot be created with Instance.new.
This class is a service. It is a singleton that may be acquired with GetService.
Memory categoryInstances
Tags: [NotCreatable, Service]

Member index 3

HistoryMember
660GetInstanceByRfc4122String(id: string): Instance
689GetOrCreateUniqueId(instance: Instance): string
689GetOrCreateUniqueIdRemoteCommand(instance: Instance): string
inherited from Instance
731Archivable: bool
731Capabilities: SecurityCapabilities
731IsInSandbox: bool
731Name: string
731Parent: Instance
731PredictionMode: PredictionMode
731Sandboxed: bool
731UniqueId: UniqueId
576AddTag(tag: string): null
573ClearAllChildren(): null
462Clone(): Instance
573Destroy(): null
486FindFirstAncestor(name: string): Instance
486FindFirstAncestorOfClass(className: string): Instance
486FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA(className: string): Instance
486FindFirstChild(name: string, recursive: bool = false): Instance
486FindFirstChildOfClass(className: string): Instance
486FindFirstChildWhichIsA(className: string, recursive: bool = false): Instance
486FindFirstDescendant(name: string): Instance
563GetActor(): Actor
486GetAttribute(attribute: string): Variant
462GetAttributeChangedSignal(attribute: string): RBXScriptSignal
631GetAttributes(): Dictionary
648GetChildren(): Instances
462GetDebugId(scopeLength: int = 4): string
707GetDescendants(): Instances
486GetFullName(): string
706GetStyled(name: string, selector: string?): Variant
657GetStyledPropertyChangedSignal(property: string): RBXScriptSignal
576GetTags(): Array
576HasTag(tag: string): bool
486IsAncestorOf(descendant: Instance): bool
486IsDescendantOf(ancestor: Instance): bool
664IsPropertyModified(property: string): bool
698QueryDescendants(selector: string): Instances
573Remove(): null
576RemoveTag(tag: string): null
664ResetPropertyToDefault(property: string): null
573SetAttribute(attribute: string, value: Variant): null
462WaitForChild(childName: string, timeOut: double): Instance
731children(): Instances
731clone(): Instance
731destroy(): null
731findFirstChild(name: string, recursive: bool = false): Instance
731getChildren(): Instances
731isDescendantOf(ancestor: Instance): bool
731remove(): null
462AncestryChanged(child: Instance, parent: Instance)
462AttributeChanged(attribute: string)
462ChildAdded(child: Instance)
462ChildRemoved(child: Instance)
462DescendantAdded(descendant: Instance)
462DescendantRemoving(descendant: Instance)
500Destroying()
657StyledPropertiesChanged()
731childAdded(child: Instance)
inherited from Object
731ClassName: string
731className: string
647GetPropertyChangedSignal(property: string): RBXScriptSignal
647IsA(className: string): bool
731isA(className: string): bool
647Changed(property: string)

Description

Not intended for experience scripts. Used by Team Create and Studio collaboration to map between an Instance's UniqueId (a 128-bit identifier) and its canonical RFC-4122 string form, and to resolve the live instance from that string.

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Members 3

GetInstanceByRfc4122String

Parameters (1)
idstring
Returns (1)
Instance
SecurityRobloxScriptSecurity
Thread safetyUnsafe

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GetOrCreateUniqueId

Parameters (1)
instanceInstance
Returns (1)
string
SecurityRobloxScriptSecurity
Thread safetyUnsafe

History 1

GetOrCreateUniqueIdRemoteCommand

Parameters (1)
instanceInstance
Returns (1)
string

Returns the RFC-4122 string representation of the given Instance's UniqueId. If the instance does not yet have one, a UniqueId is generated for it (and for any descendants that lack one) before the string is returned.

Thread safetyUnsafe

History 1

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