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Update document

Introduced 1.0

If you need to update a document’s fields in your index, you can use the update document API operation. You can do so by specifying the new data you want in your index or by including a script in your request body, which OpenSearch runs to update the document.

Example

POST /sample-index1/_update/1
{
  "doc": {
    "first_name" : "Bruce",
    "last_name" : "Wayne"
  }
}

Script example

POST /test-index1/_update/1
{
  "script" : {
    "source": "ctx._source.secret_identity = \"Batman\""
  }
}

Path and HTTP methods

POST /<index>/_update/<_id>

URL parameters

Request body

Your request body must contain the information you want to update your document with. If you just want to replace certain fields in your document, your request body must include a doc object, which has the fields you want to update.

{
  "doc": {
    "first_name": "Thomas",
    "last_name": "Wayne"
    }
}

You can also use a script to tell OpenSearch how to update your document.

{
  "script" : {
    "source": "ctx._source.oldValue += params.newValue",
    "lang": "painless",
    "params" : {
      "newValue" : 10
    }
  }
}

Response

{
  "_index": "sample-index1",
  "_type": "_doc",
  "_id": "1",
  "_version": 3,
  "result": "updated",
  "_shards": {
    "total": 2,
    "successful": 2,
    "failed": 0
  },
  "_seq_no": 4,
  "_primary_term": 17
}

Response body fields