# NEST - UpdateByQuery
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nest-updatebyquery/105744
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 30, 2017, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nest-updatebyquery/105744 "2017-10-30T10:53:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Illidan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Illidan)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2017, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nest-updatebyquery/105744/1 "2017-10-30T10:53:29Z")
Is there any "strong typed" way to tell what I want to update during 'UpdateByQuery' operation?
I find only 'Script' property which accepts a script text.
I prefer to avoid "free texts" as much as possible (free text == bugs).
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### Author:  [@forloop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/forloop)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nest-updatebyquery/105744/2 "2017-11-05T23:38:47Z")
The [Update By Query API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-update-by-query.html) only exposes making updates through scripts, and this is what the NEST API exposes too. It's not possible to strongly type scripts within NEST
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### Author:  [@Illidan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Illidan)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2017, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nest-updatebyquery/105744/3 "2017-11-17T10:23:45Z")
Got you. I suggest to add this remark to NEST documentation, because it is something not obvious.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2017, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nest-updatebyquery/105744/4 "2017-12-15T10:23:52Z")
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