Trying to update a nested geoip location field in elasticsearch - elasticsearch

Question

Here is what I've tried:
POST orders/_update_by_query
{
"script" : "ctx._source.geoip += newElement",
"params": {
"newElement": {
"location" : "[40.730610, -73.935242]"
}
},
"query": {
"term": {
"CITY": {
"value": "nyc"
}
}
}
}
The above throws error Unknown key for a START_OBJECT in [params].
Second Attempt:
POST orders/_update_by_query
{
"script":{
"source":
"for (item in ctx._source.geoip){item.location = '[40.730610, -73.935242]'}",
"lang":"painless"
},
"query": {
"term": {
"CITY": {
"value": "nyc"
}
}
}
}
The above throws null pointer exception, and points to the period at source.geoip
I also tried changing the value of location to just test but receive the same errors.
Here is my mapping:
{
"orders" : {
"mappings" : {
"properties" : {
"geoip" : {
"dynamic" : "true",
"properties" : {
"location" : {
"type" : "geo_point"
}
}
}
}
}
I am using ES v7.2 and Kibana v7.2

Answer 1

A couple of issues in the 1st approach:
params need to be defined within the script object, not below it
newElement needs to be accessed using params.newElement
you cannot append += params.newElement to a nonexistent ctx._source.geoip
you cannot append an object to a single-value field -- you can just assign it
location is of the geo_point type, so either [40.730610, -73.935242] ([lon, lat]) or "-73.935242,40.730610" ("lat,lon"), but not a mixture of both
Working command:
POST orders/_update_by_query
{
"script": {
"inline": "ctx._source.geoip = params.newElement",
"params": {
"newElement": {
"location": [
40.73061,
-73.935242
]
}
}
},
"query": {
"term": {
"CITY": {
"value": "nyc"
}
}
}
}