# Question on upsert
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-on-upsert/23023
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 31, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-on-upsert/23023 "2015-03-31T23:10:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Jae](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jae)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-on-upsert/23023/1 "2015-03-31T23:10:35Z")
Hi
I am using upsert bulk api with ES 1.4.1. The problem is, I get the
following errors so frequently.
Error messages is
"error" -\> "ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException[failed to execute
script]; nested: GroovyScriptExecutionException[NullPointerException[Cannot
execute null+null]]; "
and the upsert payload is
{
"params": {
"count": 1
},
"script": "ctx.\_source.logcount += count",
"upsert": {
"ts": 1427842500662,
"logcount": 1,
"EVENT\_TYPE": "NF\_ERRORS"
}
}
I stripped out a few fields to reduce the space.
When I retrieve the document from ES, I found something weird, the document
is showing upsert payload itself.
{
"\_index": "nf\_errors\_log20150331",
"\_type": "default",
"\_id":
"23797375spider-i-c5a68429com.netflix.cloudservice.resources.JarVersions.JarVersionsController115",
"\_version": 662,
"found": true,
"\_source": {
"params": {
"count": 1
},
"script": "ctx.\_source.logcount += count",
"upsert": {
"ts": 1427842522664,
"logcount": 1,
"EVENT\_TYPE": "NF\_ERRORS"
}
}
}
Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong?
Thank you
Best, Jae
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### Author:  [@Jae](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jae)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-on-upsert/23023/2 "2015-03-31T23:38:12Z")
NVM, I found the problem.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Bae, Jae Hyeon [metacret@gmail.com](mailto:metacret@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am using upsert bulk api with ES 1.4.1. The problem is, I get the
> following errors so frequently.
>
> Error messages is
>
> "error" -\> "ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException[failed to execute
> script]; nested: GroovyScriptExecutionException[NullPointerException[Cannot
> execute null+null]]; "
>
> and the upsert payload is
>
> {
> "params": {
> "count": 1
> },
> "script": "ctx.\_source.logcount += count",
> "upsert": {
> "ts": 1427842500662,
> "logcount": 1,
> "EVENT\_TYPE": "NF\_ERRORS"
> }
> }
>
> I stripped out a few fields to reduce the space.
>
> When I retrieve the document from ES, I found something weird, the
> document is showing upsert payload itself.
>
> {
> "\_index": "nf\_errors\_log20150331",
> "\_type": "default",
> "\_id":
> "23797375spider-i-c5a68429com.netflix.cloudservice.resources.JarVersions.JarVersionsController115",
> "\_version": 662,
> "found": true,
> "\_source": {
> "params": {
> "count": 1
> },
> "script": "ctx.\_source.logcount += count",
> "upsert": {
> "ts": 1427842522664,
> "logcount": 1,
> "EVENT\_TYPE": "NF\_ERRORS"
> }
> }
> }
>
> Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thank you
> Best, Jae
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-on-upsert/23023/3 "2017-07-06T00:22:34Z")