# How to index routing id based document in rally

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-index-routing-id-based-document-in-rally/95321>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** rally\
**Created:** [August 1, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-index-routing-id-based-document-in-rally/95321 "2017-08-01T10:54:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-index-routing-id-based-document-in-rally/95321/2 "2017-08-01T15:32:54Z")

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Hi @thennamca,

unfortunately, Rally does not support request parameters for the bulk API. However, you can generate the action and meta-data line yourself and tell Rally about it. If you generate this line yourself, you can add the `_routing` parameter there, e.g.:

```auto
{ "index" : { "_index": "test", "_type": "type1", "_id": "1", "_routing": 2 } }

```

So instead of:

```auto
 {“firstname”:“first_name1”,“lastname”:“last_name1”,“client”:100,“customerID”:2}
 {“firstname”:“first_name2”,“lastname”:“last_name2”,“client”:100,“customerID”:2}
 {“firstname”:“first_name3”,“lastname”:“last_name3”,“client”:200,“customerID”:2}

```

your file with the source documents would look like this:

```auto
{ “index” : { “_index” : “test”, “_type” : “type1”, “_id” : “1”, “_routing : 2 } }
{“firstname”:“first_name1”,“lastname”:“last_name1”,“client”:100,“customerID”:2}
{ “index” : { “_index” : “test”, “_type” : “type1”, “_id” : “2”, “_routing : 2 } }
{“firstname”:“first_name2”,“lastname”:“last_name2”,“client”:100,“customerID”:2}
{ “index” : { “_index” : “test”, “_type” : “type1”, “_id” : “3”, “_routing : 2 } }
{“firstname”:“first_name3”,“lastname”:“last_name3”,“client”:200,“customerID”:2}

```

As I've mentioned, you also need to tell Rally that your source data contains the action and meta-data line already. E.g.:

```auto
{
  "name": "index-append",
  "operation-type": "index",
  "action-and-meta-data": "sourcefile",
  "bulk-size": 5000
}

```

The property `action-and-meta-data` is set to `sourcefile` which tells Rally that your data already contain this line. Hence Rally will not generate it on the fly (also see the [track reference](http://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/stable/track.html#index) in the docs).

Btw, Rally will not consider the action and meta-data line in the bulk size or in any statistics. So the bulk size of 5.000 is really 5.000 documents (which is 10.000 lines in the source file: 5.000 documents and 5.000 action and meta-data lines).

I hope that helps.

Daniel

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