# Elasticsearch javaApi **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 1, 2016, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-javaapi/51528 "2016-06-01T08:41:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![omar\_romdhane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omar\_romdhane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/omar_romdhane)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-javaapi/51528/1 "2016-06-01T08:41:51Z")
hi , when i use searsh-api to retrieve data from one index using this code : > Settings settings = Settings.settingsBuilder().put("cluster.name", "elasticsearch-cluster").build(); > client = TransportClient.builder().settings(settings).build().addTransportAddress(new InetSocketTransportAddress(InetAddress.getByName("10.206.206.82"), 9300)); > SearchResponse sr = client.prepareSearch("logstash-2016.05.31").get(); i got a json contains a data but also non-useful data at the beginning of json like this { "took" : 1, "timed\_out" : false, "\_shards" : { "total" : 5, "successful" : 5, "failed" : 0 }, "hits" : { "total" : 110, "max\_score" : 1.0, "hits" : [ plz how eliminate it ? ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-javaapi/51528/2 "2016-06-01T09:31:54Z")
This? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/common-options.html#\_response\_filtering](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/common-options.html#_response_filtering) ---
**Author:** ![cbuescher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cbuescher/32/60402_2.png) [@cbuescher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cbuescher)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-javaapi/51528/3 "2016-06-01T09:39:04Z")
You can do response filtering using REST api, but I'm not sure the java api supports this. According to [How to use filter\_path in java api?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-filter-path-in-java-api/42844) you can't use it. ---
**Author:** ![tanguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tanguy/32/6030_2.png) [@tanguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanguy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-javaapi/51528/4 "2016-06-01T09:53:53Z")
You might be interested in this comment too: [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/10980#issuecomment-190107941](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/10980#issuecomment-190107941) ---
**Author:** ![omar\_romdhane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omar\_romdhane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/omar_romdhane)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-javaapi/51528/5 "2016-06-01T10:58:54Z")
i need to eliminate the header > { > "took" : 1, > "timed\_out" : false, > "\_shards" : { > "total" : 5, > "successful" : 5, > "failed" : 0 > } and informations about returned results > "hits" : { > "total" : 110, > "max\_score" : 1.0, so i want to display just the hits array, which includes the returned data this is a part of the response { "took" : 2, "timed\_out" : false, "\_shards" : { "total" : 25, "successful" : 10, "failed" : 0 }, "hits" : { "total" : 200, "max\_score" : 1.0, "hits" : [ { "\_index" : "logstash-2016.05.30", "\_type" : "log4j", "\_id" : "AVUCj6LyBTC2ElQBKf9k", "\_score" : 1.0, "\_source" : { "message" : " retrieveValidGatewayTransmissionData :put dupsClosedMap !", "@version" : "1", "@timestamp" : "2016-05-30T16:46:54.391Z", "timestamp" : 1464626814678, "path" : "com.esprit.HelloWorldServlet", "priority" : "WARN", "logger\_name" : "com.esprit.HelloWorldServlet", "thread" : " [task-scheduler-5] ", "class" : "?", "file" : "?:?", "method" : "?", "host" : "10.206.206.72:51303", "type" : "log4j", "date" : "016-03-23 16:32:02.613 ", "lvl" : " W ", "gateway" : "GTW2", "device" : "Device2", "source" : " LogService:14 " } }, { "\_index" : "logstash-2016.05.30", "\_type" : "log4j", "\_id" : "AVUCj6LyBTC2ElQBKf9l", "\_score" : 1.0, "\_source" : { "message" : " retrieveValidGatewayTransmissionData :put dupsClosedMap !", "@version" : "1", "@timestamp" : "2016-05-30T16:46:54.395Z", "timestamp" : 1464626814678, "path" : "com.esprit.HelloWorldServlet", "priority" : "ERROR", "logger\_name" : "com.esprit.HelloWorldServlet", "thread" : " [task-scheduler-6] ", "class" : "?", "file" : "?:?", "method" : "?", "host" : "10.206.206.72:51303", "type" : "log4j", "date" : "016-03-23 17:32:02.613 ", "lvl" : " E ", "gateway" : "GTW3", "device" : "Device5", "source" : " LogService:23 " } }] } ---
**Author:** ![omar\_romdhane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omar\_romdhane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/omar_romdhane)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-javaapi/51528/6 "2016-06-01T11:18:05Z")
i need to returns just the `_source` , without metadata 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cbuescher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cbuescher/32/60402_2.png) [@cbuescher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cbuescher)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-javaapi/51528/7 "2016-06-01T13:17:06Z")
As @tanguy pointed out, you can take the search response (sr) and use its `#toXContent()` method to write it to an XContentBuilder that allies filters. Here is an example that gives you `hits.hits._source` ``` XContentBuilder filteredBuilder = XContentBuilder.builder(JsonXContent.jsonXContent, new String[]{"hits.hits._source"}).prettyPrint(); filteredBuilder.startObject(); sr.toXContent(filteredBuilder, ToXContent.EMPTY_PARAMS); filteredBuilder.endObject(); System.out.println(filteredBuilder.string()); ``` The result looks something like this: ``` { "hits" : { "hits" : [ { "_source" : { "value" : 2, "text" : "something" } }, { "_source" : { "value" : 4, "text" : "something else" }, ... } ] } } ``` Note however this only changes presentation of the result. Since the filtering is done on the search response, all data that is filtered out is still transported to the client. ---
**Author:** ![omar\_romdhane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omar\_romdhane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/omar_romdhane)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-javaapi/51528/8 "2016-06-02T07:58:10Z")
thanks chuescher , i used this code to extract only the data ``` > SearchResponse sr = client.prepareSearch("logstash-*") ``` > ``` > .setSearchType(SearchType.DFS_QUERY_THEN_FETCH) > .setFetchSource(true) > .setSize(1000) > .setFetchSource( new String[] {"lvl","message","date","device","thread","source","gateway"}, null) > // .addFields("lvl") > .execute() > .actionGet(); > > > for (SearchHit hit : sr.getHits()){ > map = hit.getSource(); > } > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-javaapi/51528/9 "2017-07-05T22:47:00Z")