# What is the equivalent of the removeAll function in Painless
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-of-the-removeall-function-in-painless/138308
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 3, 2018, 5:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-of-the-removeall-function-in-painless/138308 "2018-07-03T05:49:59Z")
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### Author:  [@Kvin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kvin)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2018, 5:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-of-the-removeall-function-in-painless/138308/1 "2018-07-03T05:49:59Z")
We had the following line of Groovy script in 5.X:
> "inline":"ctx.\_source.all\_phone.removeAll{it.phone\_number == params.remove\_id}
It throws the following error in 6.3.0:
> {
> "error": {
> "root\_cause": [
> {
> "type": "script\_exception",
> "reason": "compile error",
> "script\_stack": [
> "... ource.all\_phone.removeAll{it.phone\_number == param ...",
> " ^---- HERE"
> ],
> "script": "ctx.\_source.all\_phone.removeAll{it.phone\_number == params.remove\_id}",
> "lang": "painless"
> }
> ],
> "type": "script\_exception",
> "reason": "compile error",
> "script\_stack": [
> "... ource.all\_phone.removeAll{it.phone\_number == param ...",
> " ^---- HERE"
> ],
> "script": "ctx.\_source.all\_phone.removeAll{it.phone\_number == params.remove\_id}",
> "lang": "painless",
> "caused\_by": {
> "type": "illegal\_argument\_exception",
> "reason": "invalid sequence of tokens near ['{'].",
> "caused\_by": {
> "type": "no\_viable\_alt\_exception",
> "reason": null
> }
> }
> },
> "status": 500
> }
What I want to do is: remove elements from a nested field which match a given criteria.
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### Author:  [@Kvin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kvin)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-of-the-removeall-function-in-painless/138308/2 "2018-07-03T06:35:42Z")
I'm not sure if this is what I've originally wanted, but I think it's a nice workaround:
> "source":"ctx.\_source.all\_phone = ctx.\_source.all\_phone.stream().filter(x -\> x.phone\_number != params.remove\_id).collect(Collectors.toList())"
So this basically collects every item from the array which matches the given condition, then assigns the result back to the original variable.
Source: [Elasticsearch: How do I remove a nested object element? - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44679876/elasticsearch-how-do-i-remove-a-nested-object-element)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-of-the-removeall-function-in-painless/138308/3 "2018-07-31T06:49:09Z")
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