# How to return document field for NEST client with search?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-return-document-field-for-nest-client-with-search/278175
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** language-clients
**Created:** [July 8, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-return-document-field-for-nest-client-with-search/278175 "2021-07-08T10:32:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@dreic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dreic)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-return-document-field-for-nest-client-with-search/278175/1 "2021-07-08T10:32:05Z")
I have following mappings:
```auto
{
"mappings": {
"properties" : {
"CompletionTime" : {
"type" : "date",
"format": "date_hour_minute_second",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "date"
}
}
},
"Description" : {
"type" : "text",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "keyword",
"ignore_above" : 256
}
}
},
"InitiatorName" : {
"type" : "text",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "keyword",
"ignore_above" : 256
}
}
},
"StartTime" : {
"type" : "date",
"format": "date_hour_minute_second",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "date"
}
}
},
"TargetObjectName" : {
"type" : "text",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "keyword",
"ignore_above" : 256
}
}
},
"TargetObjectType" : {
"type" : "text",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "keyword",
"ignore_above" : 256
}
}
}
}
}
}
```
I created following code for C# Nest client:
```auto
public DateTime GetNewestDocumentDate()
{
var searchResponse = this.ec.Client.Search(s => s
.Query(q => q.MatchAll())
.Sort(so => so
.Field(fs => fs
.Field("StartTime")
.Order(SortOrder.Descending)
))
.Size(1)
);
var a = searchResponse.Documents;
Console.WriteLine(JsonSerializer.Serialize(a));
return a.StartTime;
}
```
I am new with C# and Elastic so I don't know how to return document field. In my case it should be something like this, but my syntax is not correct. `var a` is an array and a[0].StartTime didn't pass check in Visual Studio.
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### Author:  [@dreic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dreic)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-return-document-field-for-nest-client-with-search/278175/2 "2021-07-08T19:06:28Z")
Solution:
```auto
var a = searchResponse.Documents.ElementAt(0);
return a.StartTime;
```
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### Author:  [@stevejgordon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stevejgordon)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-return-document-field-for-nest-client-with-search/278175/3 "2021-07-27T10:56:13Z")
Hi dreic! I'm glad you found the solution. Indeed, Documents is a collection of the hits, deserialised to your `Record` type so you can enumerate those and access any of the properties as required.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-return-document-field-for-nest-client-with-search/278175/4 "2021-08-24T10:56:36Z")
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