# Attachments questions
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachments-questions/4538
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 3, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachments-questions/4538 "2011-06-03T00:47:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@rtulloh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rtulloh)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachments-questions/4538/1 "2011-06-03T00:47:53Z")
I am trying to index an attachment PDF. I am using 0.17.0 (built from source). My index and mapping is created like this:
curl -XPOST 10.181.18.66:9200/test -d '{
"settings" : {
"number\_of\_shards" : 1
},
"mappings" : {
"docitem" : {
"properties" : {
"my\_attachment" : { "type" : "attachment" }
}
}
}
}'
I have installed the mapper-attachment and analysis-icu plugins.
[2011-06-02 17:43:45,571][INFO][plugins] [Day, Wilbur] loaded [mapper-attachments, analysis-icu], sites []
I then wrote a small java program to feed the document of interest. I tried sending in raw bytes and also sending in base64 encoded bytes when I called the API. Here is the relevant code:
public void index(Client client, String filename) throws ElasticSearchException, IOException {
```
IndexResponse response = client.prepareIndex("test", "docitem", "1")
.setSource(jsonBuilder()
.startObject()
.field("_content_type", "application/pdf")
.field("_name", filename)
.field("attachment", getBytes(filename)) // getBase64(filename)
.endObject()
)
.execute()
.actionGet();
```
}
When I search for the document, I don't see any of the attachment meta-data being created. Also, searches for any words in the content don't result in any hits. Am I missing something?
"took" : 1,
"timed\_out" : false,
"\_shards" : {
"total" : 1,
"successful" : 1,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1,
"max\_score" : 1.0,
"hits" : [ {
"\_index" : "test",
"\_type" : "docitem",
"\_id" : "1",
"\_score" : 1.0, "\_source" : {"\_content\_type":"application/pdf","\_name":"test.pdf","attachment":"JVBERi0xLjQKJaqrrK0KNCAwIG9iago8PAovUHJvZHVjZXIgKEFwYWN
---
### Author:  [@rtulloh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rtulloh)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachments-questions/4538/2 "2011-06-03T01:18:50Z")
Whoops, I had to change 'attachment' to 'my\_attachment' in the Java code and now things seem to be searchable as I would expect. Sorry for the bother.
public void index(Client client, String filename) throws ElasticSearchException, IOException {
```
IndexResponse response = client.prepareIndex("test", "docitem", "1")
.setSource(jsonBuilder()
.startObject()
.field("_content_type", "application/pdf")
.field("_name", filename)
.field("my_attachment", getBase64(filename))
.endObject()
)
.execute()
.actionGet();
```
}
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachments-questions/4538/3 "2017-07-06T04:04:46Z")