# Is there something like a throw statement in mvel?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-something-like-a-throw-statement-in-mvel/13002
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 30, 2013, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-something-like-a-throw-statement-in-mvel/13002 "2013-07-30T11:09:07Z")
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### Author:  [@mark\_sheinkman1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mark_sheinkman1)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2013, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-something-like-a-throw-statement-in-mvel/13002/1 "2013-07-30T11:09:07Z")
Hey folks. New around here.
Anyway, I need to make an update fail and return error on certain
conditions. Is there any way to do that?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-something-like-a-throw-statement-in-mvel/13002/2 "2017-07-06T02:23:50Z")