# Upsert With Script
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upsert-with-script/175631
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 5, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upsert-with-script/175631 "2019-04-05T16:12:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Anurag\_Mankar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anurag_Mankar)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upsert-with-script/175631/1 "2019-04-05T16:12:49Z")
I am trying to write a query to update or insert a document. The query is given below.
POST /abc/\_doc/108/\_update
{
"script" : {
"source": """
// some process is done here
""",
"lang": "painless",
"params" : {
```
**"_source": {**
```
\*\* "cus": "abcd2"\*\*
\*\* }\*\*
}
},
"scripted\_upsert": true,
"upsert": {
**"\_source": {**
\*\* "cus": "abcd2"\*\*
\*\* }\*\*
}
}
I am using the same payload in upsert and inside params
is there a way to use the same payload without writing it twice
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### Author:  [@abdon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abdon)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2019, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upsert-with-script/175631/2 "2019-04-06T09:10:57Z")
If you set `scripted_upsert` to `true` (as you're doing already), then you can pass in an empty `upsert` clause, [as shown in the documentation here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-update.html#_literal_scripted_upsert_literal). The script is then responsible for initializing the document, and you only have to pass in the values inside `params`.
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### Author:  [@Anurag\_Mankar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anurag_Mankar)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upsert-with-script/175631/3 "2019-04-08T14:23:41Z")
thank You
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upsert-with-script/175631/4 "2019-05-06T14:23:45Z")
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