# Retrieve metadata of document in response to queries **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 21, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939 "2019-11-21T16:47:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@chari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chari)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939/1 "2019-11-21T16:47:04Z")
I am indexing the text content of a file by using res = es.index(index=myIndex,body=jsonDict), where jsonDict is just the text of a pdf file in a json dictionary. I am able to query the content and retrieve the relevant text. My question is : how do I index the file contents so I could also retrieve file info such as :- "file" : { "extension" : "pdf", "content\_type" : "application/pdf", "created" : "2019-10-01T15:28:31.000+0000", "last\_modified" : "2019-10-01T15:28:31.000+0000", "last\_accessed" : "2019-10-01T15:38:50.000+0000", "indexing\_date" : "2019-10-01T15:39:08.055+0000", "filesize" : 877861, and "path" : { "root" : "4a997482a3826d51751b8e7c01e476c", "virtual" : "/P\_GB27980\_20120213.pdf", "real" : "/Users/madabhuc/Documents/IR/presto/eval/P\_GB27980\_20120213.pdf" Do I need to explicitly provide this info when I submit the files to ElasticSearch for indexing ? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939/2 "2019-11-21T19:01:10Z")
You need to provide what you want to index. The full document that is. ---
**Author:** ![chari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@chari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chari)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939/3 "2019-11-21T19:31:22Z")
The background is that I am trying to index pages of a pdf document which is currently not supported by fscrawler. So I am trying to interface with ElasticSearch by myself. It is not clear to me how you are providing the file to ES : are you writing the tika output to a file and then sending it to ES ? Thanks for your help. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939/4 "2019-11-21T19:57:53Z")
From which language? Java? ---
**Author:** ![chari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@chari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chari)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939/5 "2019-11-21T21:10:10Z")
python ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939/6 "2019-11-22T13:26:29Z")
In `jsonDict` you should provide the full JSON content, including the metadata and the extracted text. ---
**Author:** ![chari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@chari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chari)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939/7 "2019-11-22T15:04:25Z")
including filesize ? How do I know path.root as in the example ? " path" : { "root" : "4a997482a3826d51751b8e7c01e476c", "virtual" : "/P\_GB27980\_20120213.pdf", "real" : "/Users/madabhuc/Documents/IR/presto/eval/P\_GB27980\_20120213.pdf" .... } ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939/8 "2019-11-22T16:08:40Z")
You send whatever you want to index. If this data is not needed, don't send it. I have hard time to understand what your actual problem is. ---
**Author:** ![chari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@chari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chari)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939/9 "2019-11-22T16:33:23Z")
When I look at the output in response to a query, I see not just the content, but also data such as "path" as seen above. I understand that I have to pass in whatever data that I want to be seen in a query result. It is not clear to me how i would know the value of "root" as an example. or can i assume that such data is generated automatically by ES. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939/10 "2019-11-22T16:52:22Z")
No data is generated automatically. ---
**Author:** ![chari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@chari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chari)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939/11 "2019-11-22T17:22:50Z")
id is, that's why i wanted to clarify. So how do you know the value of "root" ? Many Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939/12 "2019-11-22T18:39:15Z")
I don't know. I can tell you how FSCrawler computes all that but that's another story. It's all FSCrawler internals. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-metadata-of-document-in-response-to-queries/208939/13 "2019-12-20T18:39:19Z")
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