# Get certain fields in bulk API response
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-certain-fields-in-bulk-api-response/23408
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 27, 2015, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-certain-fields-in-bulk-api-response/23408 "2015-04-27T07:55:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Jakko\_Sikkar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jakko_Sikkar)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2015, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-certain-fields-in-bulk-api-response/23408/1 "2015-04-27T07:55:33Z")
Hi,
I have a ES mapping with ES unique identifier (\_id) and custom identifier.
I need this custom indentifier to connect documents from ES index to
database. Ok, so you think why I don't use this custom identifier as \_id
field. I can't replace ES identifier with this custom identifier because in
database there can be multiple rows with this identifier. So now if I make
bulk insert with 1000 objects I get the response with ES identifiers and I
can't mark objects as indexed in database. Is there any possibility to get
custom fields from bulk response or is there other solution that I don't
see at the moment?
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### Author:  [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2015, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-certain-fields-in-bulk-api-response/23408/2 "2015-04-27T08:14:02Z")
You can send a term query after a bulk response, or you can implement your
own bulk action, which returns the custom ID instead of \_id.
Jörg
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Jakko Sikkar [jakko.sikkar@gmail.com](mailto:jakko.sikkar@gmail.com)
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a ES mapping with ES unique identifier (\_id) and custom identifier.
> I need this custom indentifier to connect documents from ES index to
> database. Ok, so you think why I don't use this custom identifier as \_id
> field. I can't replace ES identifier with this custom identifier because in
> database there can be multiple rows with this identifier. So now if I make
> bulk insert with 1000 objects I get the response with ES identifiers and I
> can't mark objects as indexed in database. Is there any possibility to get
> custom fields from bulk response or is there other solution that I don't
> see at the moment?
>
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### Author:  [@Jakko\_Sikkar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jakko_Sikkar)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2015, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-certain-fields-in-bulk-api-response/23408/3 "2015-04-27T10:11:39Z")
Thank you. Case closed 🙂
esmaspäev, 27. aprill 2015 11:14.12 UTC+3 kirjutas Jörg Prante:
> You can send a term query after a bulk response, or you can implement your
> own bulk action, which returns the custom ID instead of \_id.
>
> Jörg
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Jakko Sikkar \<[jakko....@gmail.com](mailto:jakko....@gmail.com)
> \\> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a ES mapping with ES unique identifier (\_id) and custom
> > identifier. I need this custom indentifier to connect documents from ES
> > index to database. Ok, so you think why I don't use this custom identifier
> > as \_id field. I can't replace ES identifier with this custom identifier
> > because in database there can be multiple rows with this identifier. So now
> > if I make bulk insert with 1000 objects I get the response with ES
> > identifiers and I can't mark objects as indexed in database. Is there any
> > possibility to get custom fields from bulk response or is there other
> > solution that I don't see at the moment?
> >
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-certain-fields-in-bulk-api-response/23408/4 "2017-07-06T00:17:40Z")