Scripted updates are disabled by default in ES v5

example/load.py

@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ REPO_ACTIONS = [
     {'_type': 'repos', '_id': 'elasticsearch', '_source': {
         'owner': {'name': 'Shay Bannon', 'email': '[email protected]'},
         'created_at': datetime(2010, 2, 8, 15, 22, 27),
-        'tags': ['search', 'distributed', 'lucene'],
+        'tags': ['search', 'distributed', 'lucene', 'java'],
         'description': 'You know, for search.'}
     },
 
@@ -191,19 +191,6 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     es_repo = es.get(index='git', doc_type='repos', id='elasticsearch')
     print('%s: %s' % (es_repo['_id'], es_repo['_source']['description']))
 
-    # update - add java to es tags
-    es.update(
-        index='git',
-        doc_type='repos',
-        id='elasticsearch',
-        body={
-          "script" : "ctx._source.tags += tag",
-          "params" : {
-            "tag" : "java"
-          }
-        }
-    )
-
     # refresh to make the documents available for search
     es.indices.refresh(index='git')