# About field routing and integer type **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 10, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-field-routing-and-integer-type/9298 "2012-10-10T01:12:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yuhan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@Yuhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yuhan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-field-routing-and-integer-type/9298/1 "2012-10-10T01:12:16Z")
Hi all, I just set up one index with field routing with some test data. It stores properly with some test data. I could see they consistently fall to the same shard with the same field value. However, the type of the field is integer (account\_id), the method .setRouting() takes integer as input. when I attempt to add .setRouting(""+account\_id) it returned me nothing.. (but some other random routing could reach those shard). how should I construct the routing correctly from an integer value?.. does this mean field routing have to be a string type? Thank you. Yuhan -- ---
**Author:** ![Yuhan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@Yuhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yuhan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-field-routing-and-integer-type/9298/2 "2012-10-10T01:29:21Z")
sorry my bad. it works.. The \_routing field always return a string. not sure what I did wrong last time. Thank you. Yuhan On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Yuhan Zhang [yzhang@onescreen.com](mailto:yzhang@onescreen.com) wrote: > Hi all, > > I just set up one index with field routing with some test data. It stores > properly with some test data. > I could see they consistently fall to the same shard with the same field > value. > > However, the type of the field is integer (account\_id), the method > .setRouting() takes integer as input. > when I attempt to add .setRouting(""+account\_id) it returned me nothing.. > (but some other random routing > could reach those shard). > > how should I construct the routing correctly from an integer value?.. does > this mean field routing have to be a string type? > > Thank you. > > Yuhan -- Yuhan Zhang Senior Software Engineer OneScreen Inc. [yzhang@onescreen.com](mailto:yzhang@onescreen.com) [ehorne@onescreen.com](mailto:ehorne@onescreen.com) [www.onescreen.com](http://www.onescreen.com) (949) 525-4825 Ext: 177 The information contained in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s) and may be confidential, proprietary, and/or legally privileged. Inadvertent disclosure of this message does not constitute a waiver of any privilege. If you receive this message in error, please do not directly or indirectly print, copy, retransmit, disseminate, or otherwise use the information. In addition, please delete this e-mail and all copies and notify the sender. -- ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-field-routing-and-integer-type/9298/3 "2017-07-06T03:09:28Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:09am UTC