Retrieve child items with an integer ID in a many-to-many with RavenDB

I have a many to many relationship, like so

public class Movie
{
   public int Id { get; set; }
   public string Title { get; set; }
   public int[] ActorIds { get; set; }
   // etc
}

public class Actor
{
   public int Id { get; set; }
   public int Name { get; set; }
   // etc
}

When I load a Movie, I also want to load all of the Actors associated with that Movie.

This can be done using Raven’s Load<T>(IEnumerable<System.ValueType> ids) method, and casting the int[] to an array of ValueType, like so:

var movie = RavenSession.Load<Movie>(movieId);
var actorIds = movie.TabIds.Cast<System.ValueType>();

var actors = RavenSession.Load<Actor>(actorIds).OrderBy(x => x.Name);
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