Imagine the following document into my index:
PUT test
POST test/_doc/1
{
"name": "old_name",
"data": {
"foo": "bar",
"lol": "alright"
},
"collections": ["first", "second"]
}
I would like to transform my document to:
{
"name" : "new_name",
"data": {
"foo": "lol"
},
"collections": ["first", "second"]
}
Problem is, if I use the update API like the following:
POST test/_doc/1/_update
{
"doc" : {
"name" : "new_name",
"data": {
"foo": "lol"
}
}
}
The document becomes
{
"name": "new_name",
"data": {
"foo": "lol",
"lol": "alright"
},
"collections": [
"first",
"second"
]
}
And the "lol" attribute have not been removed.
I only want my request to remove all attributes nested in the data key to be removed if not present in the update request, but I want other attributes to stay (like the collections key).
I know that the ElasticSearch documentation says:
The update API also supports passing a partial document, which will be merged into the existing document (simple recursive merge, inner merging of objects, replacing core "keys/values" and arrays)
Is their something easy I could do to respond to my problem, should I make multiple requests?
