PUT: Update one document

To update one document

• Run this PUT command

PUT eighties_movies/_doc/2
{
  "title": "Back to the Future",
  "category": "Comedy",
  "released": "July 3, 1985",
  "star": {
    "first_name": "Michael",
    "middle_name": "J.",
    "last_name": "Fox",
    "character": "Marty"
  }
}

• This updates the document with unique id 2 inside the index named eighties_movies

info

This document with id 2 was added in the POST bulk example earlier

• The first name was Michael J. and is now Michael

• There is a now a middle name J.