Insert Object Data using Update

[adityosn (Adityo Setyonugroho)]

Hi,

I would like adding data to my new added properties. So, I have ran mapping again to update my last index mapping by adding this property:

"author": { 
      "properties": {
        "id":  { "type": "integer" },
        "name": { 
          "properties": {
            "nicename": { "type": "text" },
            "displayname":  { "type": "text" }
          }
        },
		"email":  { "type": "text" }
      }

After I add new properties to my index, I would like to adding this part of properties data without reimport all my other properties data.

For example beside author properties I have:

1. Post ID
2. Post Content
3. Post Date

I have run UPDATE API from elastic by using this :
http://esURL/index/type/idcontent/_update POST

   {
      "script": {
        "source": "ctx._source.author.id = '10'",
        "lang": "painless"
      }
    }

I got this error:

Any Idea how to do it ?

Thank You

[jpountz (Adrien Grand)]

What does your document look like before the update? Does it actually exsist? Does it have an author field which is an object?

[adityosn (Adityo Setyonugroho)]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

It does not exists before, I would like to update my document by just adding author without I need to add again ID, Content, and Date.

For example, I have this before mapping:

{
    "post_ID" : 8,
    "post_date" : 1405461244000,
    "post_content" : "CONTENT SAMPLE"
  }

Then, after mapping, I would like to add author data to my document, so become like this:

{
	"author" : {
		"email" : "user@email.com",
		"id" : 1,
		"name" : {
			"nicename" : "user",
			"displayname" : "user"
		}
	}
    "post_ID" : 8,
    "post_date" : 1405461244000,
    "post_content" : "CONTENT SAMPLE"
  }

[jpountz (Adrien Grand)]

Then you'll probably want to read about upserts. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-update.html#upserts

[adityosn (Adityo Setyonugroho)]

Thank you so much ! Yes, I can insert object type into my created document.

By using : https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-update.html#_literal_doc_as_upsert_literal

Thanks a lot

Best Regards,

Adityo Setyonugroho