Can I retrieve nesting level of term without navigating all parents?

Question

I'm retrieving Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Taxonomy.Term by Guid. It has Parent property, which can have Parent property, etc.

Can I find out, which nesting level is specific term, without recursively calling Load() and the expensive ExecuteQuery() on each Parent?

Answer 1

I don't know if it is exactly usable in your situation, but maybe it helps:

In PowerShell you can use the GetPath() method and count the semicolons. Example:

Root
      \- Child

GetPath() used on 'Child' returns 'Root;Child' - so the nesting level is the count of the ';'.

Additionally there is the 'isRoot' property to quickly check if it is a toplevel term.