# How to search on specific fields but return the entire object matching to the fields?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-on-specific-fields-but-return-the-entire-object-matching-to-the-fields/27997
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 25, 2015, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-on-specific-fields-but-return-the-entire-object-matching-to-the-fields/27997 "2015-08-25T09:05:11Z")
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### Author:  [@Sathish\_Dv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sathish_Dv)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2015, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-on-specific-fields-but-return-the-entire-object-matching-to-the-fields/27997/1 "2015-08-25T09:05:11Z")
Hi,
I need to search on specific fields, but respond back with entire source object matching to the fields.
I tried passing the Fields property with required field but I get response with only those fields populated with value. So I have set \_source="_" along with Fields but still search happening on fields other than field list.
If I use the below, then search happening on fields other than user and postdate. All I need is search only on these two fields but return the entire source object associated to the fields.
{
"fields" : ["user", "postDate"],
"\_source": "_",
"query" : {
"term" : { "user" : "kimchy" }
}
}
Please help me on this.
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### Author:  [@polyfractal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/polyfractal)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2015, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-on-specific-fields-but-return-the-entire-object-matching-to-the-fields/27997/2 "2015-08-25T13:37:41Z")
Your search will be executed against the fields in the query. It is unrelated to the fields you request via `fields` or `_source`. That just changes what the response looks like.
So you in your query, the `user` field is being searched for `kimchy` ... `postDate` is not searched at all.
By default Elasticsearch will respond with the entire, original source JSON, so you don't need to do anything special there.
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### Author:  [@Sathish\_Dv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sathish_Dv)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-on-specific-fields-but-return-the-entire-object-matching-to-the-fields/27997/3 "2015-08-25T17:33:27Z")
Thanks a lot for quick reply. Will try as per you suggestion and will keep updated this post .
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-on-specific-fields-but-return-the-entire-object-matching-to-the-fields/27997/4 "2017-07-05T23:53:58Z")