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|  | <pre>public interface <span class="typeNameLabel">StatisticDescriptor</span> | 
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|  | <td class="colFirst"><code>int</code></td> | 
|  | <td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../org/apache/geode/StatisticDescriptor.html#getId--">getId</a></span>()</code> | 
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|  | <td class="colFirst"><code><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</a></code></td> | 
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|  | <td class="colFirst"><code>boolean</code></td> | 
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|  | <td class="colFirst"><code>boolean</code></td> | 
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|  | <div class="block">Returns the id of this statistic in a <a href="../../../org/apache/geode/StatisticsType.html" title="interface in org.apache.geode"><code>statistics type</code></a>. The id is | 
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