# \_update\_by\_query support doc {}
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-update-by-query-support-doc/59100
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 27, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-update-by-query-support-doc/59100 "2016-08-27T20:58:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@teebu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teebu)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-update-by-query-support-doc/59100/1 "2016-08-27T20:58:33Z")
Does `_update_by_query` support doc {} or only script?
I'd like to update the doc's using values. In a similar way `_update` works, by passing doc {}.
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### Author:  [@aros](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aros)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-update-by-query-support-doc/59100/2 "2016-10-18T16:07:11Z")
I also would like to have this feature. Any plans for this?
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### Author:  [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-update-by-query-support-doc/59100/3 "2016-10-18T16:37:04Z")
This is tracked as a "we don't know" feature request [here](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/20135).
In 5.0 this becomes less important because 5.0 ships with Painless which is a scripting language that is enabled by default because it is safe. Personally I prefer it having to reason about what the `doc` merging code does and I'm quite familiar with that code. I get the appeal though. It "just works" in lots of cases.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-update-by-query-support-doc/59100/4 "2017-07-05T22:11:30Z")