Hello, I'd like to be able to return a 'null' from a scripted field defined in Kibana - e.g., my_scripted_field = doc['field_1'].value != 0 ? doc['field_2'].value : null The idea is that if field_1 doesn't exist (== 0 in Lucence expressions), then there is no value assigned to my_scripted_field …

Returning 'null' or nothing from scripted fields

AlexIoannides (Alex Ioannides) July 28, 2016, 9:31am 3

Thanks Joe. I can't return a null using Groovy either (results in a nested ClassCastException).

I'll explore this use-case on the Elasticsearch section like you suggest.

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Returning 'null' or nothing from scripted fields

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