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Updating Fields with Painless

Serverless

Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments.

Stack

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

You can also easily update fields. You access the original source for a field as ctx._source.<field-name>.

First, let’s look at the source data for a player by submitting the following request:

JSON 
GET hockey/_search
{
  "query": {
    "term": {
      "_id": 1
    }
  }
}

To change player 1’s last name to hockey, simply set ctx._source.last to the new value:

JSON 
POST hockey/_update/1
{
  "script": {
    "lang": "painless",
    "source": "ctx._source.last = params.last",
    "params": {
      "last": "hockey"
    }
  }
}

You can also add fields to a document. For example, this script adds a new field that contains the player’s nickname, hockey.

JSON 
POST hockey/_update/1
{
  "script": {
    "lang": "painless",
    "source": """
      ctx._source.last = params.last;
      ctx._source.nick = params.nick
    """,
    "params": {
      "last": "gaudreau",
      "nick": "hockey"
    }
  }
}