# Es.update.script.inline and es.write.operation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-update-script-inline-and-es-write-operation/152192>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 12, 2018, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-update-script-inline-and-es-write-operation/152192 "2018-10-12T08:55:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![werowe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/werowe/32/47523_2.png) [@werowe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/werowe)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-update-script-inline-and-es-write-operation/152192/1 "2018-10-12T08:55:20Z")

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Trying to update a document using the elasticsearch-hadoop jar and Spark.

This works find:

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curl -XPOST --header 'Content-Type: application/json' [http://localhost:9200/walker\_pandas/\_doc/1/\_update](http://localhost:9200/walker_pandas/_doc/1/_update) -d '{  
curl -XPOST --header 'Content-Type: application/json' [http://localhost:9200/walker\_pandas/\_doc/1/\_update](http://localhost:9200/walker_pandas/_doc/1/_update) -d '{  
"script": {  
"lang": "painless",  
"inline": "ctx.\_source.last = params.last",  
"params": {  
"last": "Frost"  
}  
}  
}  
´´´

This does not:

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j = {  
"script": {  
"lang": "painless",  
"inline": "ctx.\_source.last = params.last",  
"params": {  
"last": "Frost"  
}  
}  
}

esconf={}  
esconf["es.mapping.id" = 1]  
esconf["es.nodes"] = "localhost"  
esconf["es.port"] = "9200"  
esconf["es.update.script.inline"] = j  
esconf["es.write.operation"] = "update"

df.rdd.saveAsNewAPIHadoopFile(  
path='-',  
outputFormatClass="org.elasticsearch.hadoop.mr.EsOutputFormat",  
keyClass="org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable",  
valueClass="org.elasticsearch.hadoop.mr.LinkedMapWritable",  
conf=esconf)  
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**Author:** ![werowe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/werowe/32/47523_2.png) [@werowe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/werowe)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-update-script-inline-and-es-write-operation/152192/2 "2018-10-12T13:12:54Z")

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Also trying something like this:

> esconf={}  
> esconf["id"] = "\_id"  
> esconf["es.nodes"] = "localhost"  
> esconf["es.port"] = "9200"  
> esconf["es.write.operation"] = "update"  
> esconf["es.update.script.params.json"] = j
> 
> df.write.format("org.elasticsearch.spark.sql").options(\*\*esconf).mode("append").save("backup\_/items")

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**Author:** ![james.baiera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/james.baiera/32/10209_2.png) [@james.baiera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/james.baiera)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-update-script-inline-and-es-write-operation/152192/3 "2018-10-15T18:37:41Z")

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The `es.update.script.inline` property is meant to be the actual inline script. In this case, you should have it set to `ctx._source.last = params.last`.

As for the `es.update.script.params`parameter, you should set it to `last:fieldName` to pick up a value from each document that is being written, or `last:<Frost>` if you want every document to use a constant value in its parameter.

More information should be available here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/hadoop/current/configuration.html#cfg-update](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/hadoop/current/configuration.html#cfg-update)

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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:** [November 12, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-update-script-inline-and-es-write-operation/152192/4 "2018-11-12T18:37:41Z")

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