# Why my script transform failed with "No such property: org for class: Script8"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-script-transform-failed-with-no-such-property-org-for-class-script8/32560>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [October 20, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-script-transform-failed-with-no-such-property-org-for-class-script8/32560 "2015-10-20T09:24:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Enniu\_51](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/enniu_51/32/5310_2.png) [@Enniu\_51](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Enniu_51)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-script-transform-failed-with-no-such-property-org-for-class-script8/32560/1 "2015-10-20T09:24:50Z")

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`curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/.watch_history*/_search?pretty' -d '{ "sort" : [{ "result.execution_time" : "desc" }]}'`:

```
            "condition": {
                "type": "script",
                "status": "success",
                "met": true
            },
            "transform": {
                "type": "script",
                "status": "failure",
                "reason": "GroovyScriptExecutionException[MissingPropertyException[No such property: org for class: Script8]]"
            }

```

I use `Watcher Java API` to build Transform:

```
watchSourceBuilder.transform(new ScriptTransform(new Script.Builder.DefaultType(scriptContent).build()));

```

Script code:

```
import org.elasticsearch.common.joda.time.DateTime
import org.elasticsearch.common.joda.time.Period
import org.elasticsearch.common.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter

String rangeString = '''PT1M''';
DateTimeFormatter fmt = org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat.dateTime();
DateTime scheduleTime = fmt.parseDateTime(ctx.trigger.triggered_time.toString());
Period period = org.joda.time.format.ISOPeriodFormat.standard().parsePeriod(rangeString);
DateTime beginTime = scheduleTime.minus(period);
return [beginTime:beginTime, endTime:scheduleTime];
```

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**Author:** ![Enniu\_51](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/enniu_51/32/5310_2.png) [@Enniu\_51](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Enniu_51)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-script-transform-failed-with-no-such-property-org-for-class-script8/32560/2 "2015-10-20T09:33:04Z")

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@spinscale Do you have any idea? 😊

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**Author:** ![Enniu\_51](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/enniu_51/32/5310_2.png) [@Enniu\_51](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Enniu_51)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-script-transform-failed-with-no-such-property-org-for-class-script8/32560/3 "2015-10-20T13:27:13Z")

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```
String rangeString = '''${range}''';
scheduleTime = org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat.dateTime().parseDateTime(ctx.trigger.triggered_time.toString());
period = org.joda.time.format.ISOPeriodFormat.standard().parsePeriod(rangeString);
beginTime = scheduleTime.minus(period);
return [beginTime:beginTime, endTime:scheduleTime];

```

I have tried that code, but it still gives:

```
"transform":{"type":"script","status":"failure","reason":"GroovyScriptExecutionException[MissingPropertyException[No such property: org for class: Script10]]"}
```

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**Author:** ![pickypg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pickypg/32/62409_2.png) [@pickypg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pickypg)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-script-transform-failed-with-no-such-property-org-for-class-script8/32560/4 "2015-10-22T04:24:40Z")

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Hi Enniu,

Similar to the other Joda time classes, you need to use the Elasticsearch-shaded variants with the `ISODateTimeFormat` and `ISOPeriodFormat`. Change

```auto
org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat
org.joda.time.format.ISOPeriodFormat

```

to

```auto
org.elasticsearch.common.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat
org.elasticsearch.common.joda.time.format.ISOPeriodFormat

```

then it should do what you expect.

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**Author:** ![Enniu\_51](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/enniu_51/32/5310_2.png) [@Enniu\_51](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Enniu_51)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-script-transform-failed-with-no-such-property-org-for-class-script8/32560/5 "2015-10-22T05:54:05Z")

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Wow, that works!

But I feel strange, because @spinscale gave me such a transform:

```
"transform" : {
        "script" : "time = org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat.dateTime().withZone(org.joda.time.DateTimeZone.forID(\"Europe/Berlin\")).parseDateTime(ctx.trigger.triggered_time.toString()).toString() ; return [time_as_string : time]"
      } 

```

Why he use `org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat` there?

relate post:

> [@Is there a way to support different time zone when my email title is “error occurs at {{ctx.trigger.scheduled\_time}}”?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-support-different-time-zone-when-my-email-title-is-error-occurs-at-ctx-trigger-scheduled-time/32455/2):
>
> Hey there, you can use the the joda date time formatters to do this. This is just a quick test and it worked, I think you can do this more efficiently. curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/\_watcher/watch/log\_error\_watch' -d '{ "trigger" : { "schedule" : { "interval" : "10s" } }, "input" : { "search" : { "request" : { "indices" : ["logs"], "body" : { "query" : { "match" : { "message": "error" } } } } } }, "action…

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**Author:** ![Enniu\_51](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/enniu_51/32/5310_2.png) [@Enniu\_51](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Enniu_51)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-script-transform-failed-with-no-such-property-org-for-class-script8/32560/6 "2015-10-22T06:10:18Z")

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I find I need original payload, so I change my return to:

```
return [origin_payload:ctx.payload, begin_time:beginTime, end_time:scheduleTime];

```

That works, but I wonder is there a way which will append new result to the payload rather than replace?

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-script-transform-failed-with-no-such-property-org-for-class-script8/32560/7 "2015-10-26T07:58:03Z")

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@Enniu_51 I tested with a 2.0.0-rc1 build, which needed a different import (because shading is gone, see [this blog post](https://www.elastic.co/blog/to-shade-or-not-to-shade) from last week)

transform returns a new payload. So to shorten things a bit in the script you could also just add something like `ctx.payload.foo = whatver ; return ctx.payload` - but thats what you have to do.

--Alex

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**Author:** ![Enniu\_51](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/enniu_51/32/5310_2.png) [@Enniu\_51](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Enniu_51)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-script-transform-failed-with-no-such-property-org-for-class-script8/32560/8 "2015-10-26T08:02:25Z")

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> [@spinscale](#):
>
> So to shorten things a bit in the script you could also just add something like ctx.payload.foo = whatver ; return ctx.payload

By `return ctx.payload`, then we will have some thing like `ctx.payload.payload.whatever`?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-script-transform-failed-with-no-such-property-org-for-class-script8/32560/9 "2017-07-06T13:48:18Z")

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