# How to access \_id from Spark SQL?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access--id-from-spark-sql/24403>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** es-hadoop\
**Created:** [June 26, 2015, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access--id-from-spark-sql/24403 "2015-06-26T07:06:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ludonara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9dc877/32.png) [@ludonara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ludonara)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access--id-from-spark-sql/24403/1 "2015-06-26T07:06:30Z")

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Hi,

i would access elasticsearch \_id field from a SQL request through Spark Shell.

I've try this request :

```
> sqlContext.sql("select `_id`,platform,avg(duration),count(*) from video group by platform").show(100)

```

But it's not work. Others document fields work fine.

Thank for your help.

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**Author:** ![costin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/costin/32/44950_2.png) [@costin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/costin)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access--id-from-spark-sql/24403/2 "2015-06-26T11:18:13Z")

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By default, the document metadata is not returned. To do so, set `es.read.metadata` to true as mentioned [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/hadoop/current/configuration.html#_metadata)

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**Author:** ![ludonara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9dc877/32.png) [@ludonara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ludonara)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access--id-from-spark-sql/24403/3 "2015-06-26T11:39:39Z")

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Exactly what i need.

Thank you.

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**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, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access--id-from-spark-sql/24403/4 "2017-07-06T13:28:10Z")

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