You have an Elasticsearch index with two docs:
[
{
"_index": "myIndex",
"_type": "myType",
"_id": "es1472002807930",
"_source": {
"animal": "turtle",
"color": "green",
"weight": 20,
}
},
{
"_index": "myIndex",
"_type": "myType",
"_id": "es1472002809463",
"_source": {
"animal": "bear",
"color": "brown"
"weight": 400,
}
}
]
Later, you get this updated data about the bear:
{
"color": "pink",
"weight": 500,
"diet": "omnivore",
}
So, you want to update the "color" and "weight" values of the bear, and add the "diet" key to the "bear" doc. You know there's only one doc with "animal": "bear"
(but you don't know the _id):
Using the Nodejs driver, what updateByQuery syntax would update the "bear" doc with these new values?
(NOTE: this question has been entirely edited to be more useful to the SO community!)
The answer was provided by Val in this other SO:
How to update a document based on query using elasticsearch-js (or other means)?
Here is the answer:
var theScript = {
"inline": "ctx._source.color = 'pink'; ctx._source.weight = 500; ctx._source.diet = 'omnivore';"
}
client.updateByQuery({
index: myindex,
type: mytype,
body: {
"query": { "match": { "animal": "bear" } },
"script": theScript
}
}, function(err, res) {
if (err) {
reportError(err)
}
cb(err, res)
}
)