Adds 'Update a document' API example page (#129840)

* Adds Update a document API example page

* Update docs/reference/elasticsearch/rest-apis/update-document.md

Co-authored-by: Liam Thompson <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: Liam Thompson <[email protected]>

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docs/reference/elasticsearch/rest-apis/update-document.md

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+---
+mapped_pages:
+  - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.18/docs-update.html
+applies_to:
+  stack: all
+navigation_title: Update a document
+---
+
+# Update a document [update-document]
+
+The [Update API](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/operation/operation-update) enables you to script document updates, allowing you to update, delete, or skip modifying a document. 
+
+The following examples show common use cases, such as incrementing a counter and adding or removing elements from a list, as well as how to:
+
+- [Update part of a document](#update-part-document)
+- [Detect noop updates](#detect-noop-updates)
+- [Insert or update documents with upsert](#upsert)
+- [Simplify upsert with doc_as_upsert](#doc-as-upsert)
+
+First, let's index a simple doc:
+
+```console
+PUT test/_doc/1
+{
+  "counter" : 1,
+  "tags" : ["red"]
+}
+```
+% TESTSETUP
+
+To increment the counter, you can submit an update request with the
+following script:
+
+```console
+POST test/_update/1
+{
+  "script" : {
+    "source": "ctx._source.counter += params.count",
+    "lang": "painless",
+    "params" : {
+      "count" : 4
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Similarly, you could use and update script to add a tag to the list of tags
+(this is just a list, so the tag is added even it exists):
+
+```console
+POST test/_update/1
+{
+  "script": {
+    "source": "ctx._source.tags.add(params.tag)",
+    "lang": "painless",
+    "params": {
+      "tag": "blue"
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+You could also remove a tag from the list of tags. The Painless
+function to `remove` a tag takes the array index of the element
+you want to remove. To avoid a possible runtime error, you first need to
+make sure the tag exists. If the list contains duplicates of the tag, this
+script just removes one occurrence.
+
+```console
+POST test/_update/1
+{
+  "script": {
+    "source": "if (ctx._source.tags.contains(params.tag)) { ctx._source.tags.remove(ctx._source.tags.indexOf(params.tag)) }",
+    "lang": "painless",
+    "params": {
+      "tag": "blue"
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+You can also add and remove fields from a document. For example, this script
+adds the field `new_field`:
+
+```console
+POST test/_update/1
+{
+  "script" : "ctx._source.new_field = 'value_of_new_field'"
+}
+```
+
+Conversely, this script removes the field `new_field`:
+
+```console
+POST test/_update/1
+{
+  "script" : "ctx._source.remove('new_field')"
+}
+```
+% TEST[continued]
+
+The following script removes a subfield from an object field:
+
+```console
+PUT test/_doc/1?refresh
+{
+  "my-object": {
+    "my-subfield": true
+  }
+}
+```
+
+```console
+POST test/_update/1
+{
+  "script": "ctx._source['my-object'].remove('my-subfield')"
+}
+```
+% TEST[continued]
+
+Instead of updating the document, you can also change the operation that is
+executed from within the script. For example, this request deletes the doc if
+the `tags` field contains `green`, otherwise it does nothing (`noop`):
+
+```console
+POST test/_update/1
+{
+  "script": {
+    "source": "if (ctx._source.tags.contains(params.tag)) { ctx.op = 'delete' } else { ctx.op = 'noop' }",
+    "lang": "painless",
+    "params": {
+      "tag": "green"
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+## Update part of a document [update-part-document]
+
+The following partial update adds a new field to the
+existing document:
+
+```console
+POST test/_update/1
+{
+  "doc": {
+    "name": "new_name"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+If both `doc` and `script` are specified, then `doc` is ignored. If you
+specify a scripted update, include the fields you want to update in the script.
+
+
+## Detect noop updates [detect-noop-updates]
+
+By default updates that don't change anything detect that they don't change
+anything and return `"result": "noop"`:
+
+```console
+POST test/_update/1
+{
+  "doc": {
+    "name": "new_name"
+  }
+}
+```
+% TEST[continued]
+
+If the value of `name` is already `new_name`, the update
+request is ignored and the `result` element in the response returns `noop`:
+
+```console
+
+{
+   "_shards": {
+        "total": 0,
+        "successful": 0,
+        "failed": 0
+   },
+   "_index": "test",
+   "_id": "1",
+   "_version": 2,
+   "_primary_term": 1,
+   "_seq_no": 1,
+   "result": "noop"
+}
+```
+
+You can disable this behavior by setting `"detect_noop": false`:
+
+```console
+POST test/_update/1
+{
+  "doc": {
+    "name": "new_name"
+  },
+  "detect_noop": false
+}
+```
+
+## Insert or update documents with upsert [upsert]
+
+An upsert operation lets you update an existing document or insert a new one if it doesn't exist, in a single request.
+
+In this example, if the product with ID `1` exists, its price will be updated to `100`. If the product does not exist, a new document with ID `1` and a price of `50` will be inserted.
+
+```console
+POST /test/_update/1
+{
+  "doc": {
+    "product_price": 100
+  },
+  "upsert": {
+    "product_price": 50
+  }
+}
+```
+
+## Run a scripted upsert [scripted-upsert]
+
+To run the script whether or not the document exists, set `scripted_upsert` to
+`true`:
+
+```console
+POST test/_update/1
+{
+  "scripted_upsert": true,
+  "script": {
+    "source": """
+      if ( ctx.op == 'create' ) {
+        ctx._source.counter = params.count
+      } else {
+        ctx._source.counter += params.count
+      }
+    """,
+    "params": {
+      "count": 4
+    }
+  },
+  "upsert": {}
+}
+```
+
+## Simplify upsert with doc_as_upsert [doc-as-upsert]
+
+Instead of sending a partial `doc` plus an `upsert` doc, you can set
+`doc_as_upsert` to `true` to use the contents of `doc` as the `upsert`
+value:
+
+```console
+POST test/_update/1
+{
+  "doc": {
+    "name": "new_name"
+  },
+  "doc_as_upsert": true
+}
+```
+
+::::{note}
+Using [ingest pipelines](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.18/ingest.html) with `doc_as_upsert` is not supported.
+::::

docs/reference/elasticsearch/toc.yml

@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ toc:
             - file: rest-apis/searching-with-query-rules.md
             - file: rest-apis/shard-request-cache.md
             - file: rest-apis/term-vectors-examples.md
+            - file: rest-apis/update-document.md
             - file: rest-apis/update-cc-api-key-examples.md
             - file: rest-apis/vector-tile-search.md
   - file: mapping-reference/index.md