# Provide order of ids and retrieve docs in the provided order
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provide-order-of-ids-and-retrieve-docs-in-the-provided-order/282535
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 26, 2021, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provide-order-of-ids-and-retrieve-docs-in-the-provided-order/282535 "2021-08-26T05:41:12Z")
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### Author:  [@voldemort02](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/voldemort02)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2021, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provide-order-of-ids-and-retrieve-docs-in-the-provided-order/282535/1 "2021-08-26T05:41:12Z")
I have I have order of ids, [1, 4, 2, 5] and some filters { match: {...} } and I want the resulting documents to be returned in the order [1, 4, 2, 5]. What would be the best way to achieve this?
Sample document:
```auto
{
"id": ,
"name": "Some name",
"description": "Some description"
}
```
Now I am aware that ES stores \_id for each document and \_id for es doc and id field inside my doc are same.
So I want to provide array of ids and get the results in that order after all the filtering.
For example I have 4 documents
```auto
{
"id": "abcd",
"name": "test1",
"description": "test1"
},
{
"id": "bcde",
"name": "test2",
"description": "test2"
},
{
"id": "cdef",
"name": "test3",
"description": "test3"
}
```
now i have array of ids ["cdef", "abcd", "bcde"] so I want to query es and get results in the above specified order meaning doc with `cdef` has to be first in the hits then doc with `abcd` and then doc with `bcde`
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2021, 5:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provide-order-of-ids-and-retrieve-docs-in-the-provided-order/282535/2 "2021-08-26T05:48:33Z")
Elasticsearch will not guarantee the order like that, you can only do sorts.
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### Author:  [@voldemort02](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/voldemort02)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2021, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provide-order-of-ids-and-retrieve-docs-in-the-provided-order/282535/3 "2021-08-26T05:52:17Z")
Yes by default ES won't guarantee that but is there a way using using custom function for sorting? I found some snippets using painless script but not sure from docs how can I achieve behavior I want?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2021, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provide-order-of-ids-and-retrieve-docs-in-the-provided-order/282535/4 "2021-09-23T05:52:41Z")
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