# Conditional update with elastic search when query returns no document

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-update-with-elastic-search-when-query-returns-no-document/207285
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 11, 2019, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-update-with-elastic-search-when-query-returns-no-document/207285 "2019-11-11T06:31:58Z")
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### Author: ![FaisalHBTU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FaisalHBTU](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FaisalHBTU)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2019, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-update-with-elastic-search-when-query-returns-no-document/207285/1 "2019-11-11T06:31:58Z")

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Hi Team,  
I am performing **conditional update** operation on elastic search doc. How i do is:

1. I create a query which has conditions on doc level for filtering
2. I use groovy **script** to update some of the fields conditionally  
eg: say if doc. date\>current\_time--\> set this value

It works fine. Now the problem is , if query in step 1 returns no doc, step 2 is skipped.  
I want to throw exception in this case. How is it possible.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-update-with-elastic-search-when-query-returns-no-document/207285/2 "2019-12-09T06:32:03Z")

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