Hello Michael , Please find the answers in the order of questions you have asked -
1. Referencing script from file system is explained here. It has very well worked for me , please double check on it - http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-scripting.html 2. I feel you haven't declared that field as date type in the schema . If you had done that , you will recieve the epoch instead of string. - http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-core-types.html#date 3. Dates are internally stored as epoch. So it should handle that second fraction too. More on the format can be seen here - http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/api-release/org/joda/time/format/DateTimeFormat.html 4. What exactly do you want to do with the duration ? If its range aggregation , it does have script support - http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-aggregations-bucket-range-aggregation.html#search-aggregations-bucket-range-aggregation Thanks Vineeth On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Michael Giagnocavo <m...@giagnocavo.net> wrote: > I'm trying to work with dates inside a script. I've got a few questions: > > 1. How do I reference a script that I have in the scripts directory? > Simply POSTing to /index/type/id/_update with { "script": "scriptname" } > does not seem to work. "No such property: scriptname for class: ScriptN", > where N starts at 3 (I have two .groovy files in my scripts directory). > > 2: How can I get actual date objects from the source? > ctx._source.fieldname always returns a type string, even if I just created > the field with ctx._source.fieldname = new Date(). Right now I'm parsing > the string output in Groovy, which seems suboptimal. > > 3: Are ISO8601 dates not fully supported, as far as arbitrary fractional > second decimals? (Not just 3 or another fixed number?) Any suggestions on > handling JSON input from multiple sources, some of which have > high-precision? > > 4: Can I use a script to project the document into a scalar for > aggregates? For instance, if I have Date fields "start" and "end", and want > to calculate the average duration (start - end) in an aggregate. I see > value-level scripts are allowed, and 1.4 has "scripted metric aggregation". > For now am I best off just storing the duration in the document? > > Thank you, > Michael > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/13d4cf783a83447a84b62206605ad312%40CO1PR07MB331.namprd07.prod.outlook.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAGdPd5%3DBzthM14yz3SuzxvTz5QXOW4Gtt72rvsA1-dND5eP--A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
