diff --git a/jaseci_ai_kit/jac_misc/jac_misc/elastic_retrieval/elastic_retrieval.py b/jaseci_ai_kit/jac_misc/jac_misc/elastic_retrieval/elastic_retrieval.py
index a4e580f0a6..16620f1e33 100644
--- a/jaseci_ai_kit/jac_misc/jac_misc/elastic_retrieval/elastic_retrieval.py
+++ b/jaseci_ai_kit/jac_misc/jac_misc/elastic_retrieval/elastic_retrieval.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 OAI_CLIENT = None
 ES_CLIENT = None
-MAX_DIMENSIONS = int(getenv("ELASTICSEARCH_VECTOR_SIZE", "2048"))
+MAX_DIMENSIONS = getenv("ELASTICSEARCH_VECTOR_SIZE", "2048")
 CONFIG = {
     "elastic": {
         "url": getenv("ELASTICSEARCH_URL", "http://localhost:9200"),
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
                         "id": {"type": "keyword"},
                         "embedding": {
                             "type": "dense_vector",
-                            "dims": MAX_DIMENSIONS,
+                            "dims": int(MAX_DIMENSIONS),
                             "index": True,
                             "similarity": getenv("ELASTICSEARCH_SIMILARITY", "cosine"),
                         },
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@
     "openai": {"api_key": getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")},
     "openai_embedding": {
         "model": getenv("OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL", "text-embedding-3-large"),
-        "dimensions": getenv("OPENAI_EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONS", MAX_DIMENSIONS),
+        "extra_body": {
+            "dimensions": int(getenv("OPENAI_EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONS", MAX_DIMENSIONS))
+        },
     },
     "chunk_config": {
         "chunk_size": int(getenv("CHUNK_SIZE", "200")),