Elasticsearch bulk update geo_location of all documents with curl - elasticsearch

Question

I have a bunch of documents in Elasticsearch that don't have a geo_point attribute.
Now I want to add it to all of them.
With some research I found the command bellow but was originally used to update a string attribute.
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/products/_update_by_query" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"script": {
"source": "ctx._source.location = {'lat': 0.0, 'lon':0.0}",
"lang": "painless"
},
"query": {
"match_all": {}
}
}'
Thought I'd just replace the string with geo_point but it gives me this error:
{
"error":{
"root_cause":[{
"type":"parse_exception",
"reason":"expected one of [inline], [file] or [stored] fields, but found none"
}],
"type":"parse_exception",
"reason":"expected one of [inline], [file] or [stored] fields, but found none"
},
"status":400
}
I appreciate any help.

Answer 1

Good job so far!
It looks like you're running an older version of ES. Try the command below which simply replaces source by inline as it was the norm in older versions:
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/products/_update_by_query" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"script": {
"inline": "ctx._source.location = ['lat': 0.0, 'lon':0.0]",
"lang": "painless"
},
"query": {
"match_all": {}
}
}'
Note, however, that if your location field is already of type text or string you cannot change it to geo_point with this command. You'll need to either create a new field named differently than location and of type geo_point or create a new index with the proper mapping for the location field.
Edit: If the above doesn't work, try replacing single quote ' with \" like so
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/products/_update_by_query" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"script": {
"inline": "ctx._source.location = [\"lat\": 0.0, \"lon\":0.0]",
"lang": "painless"
},
"query": {
"match_all": {}
}
}'