[DOCS] Add anchors for scripted metric aggregations (#53618)

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Lisa Cawley 2020-03-16 12:14:01 -07:00 committed by lcawl
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For more details on specifying scripts see <<modules-scripting, script documentation>>.
[[scripted-metric-aggregation-return-types]]
==== Allowed return types
Whilst any valid script object can be used within a single script, the scripts must return or store in the `state` object only the following types:
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* Map (containing only keys and values of the types listed here)
* Array (containing elements of only the types listed here)
[[scripted-metric-aggregation-scope]]
==== Scope of scripts
The scripted metric aggregation uses scripts at 4 stages of its execution:
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In the above example, the `reduce_script` iterates through the `profit` returned by each shard summing the values before returning the
final combined profit which will be returned in the response of the aggregation.
==== Worked Example
[[scripted-metric-aggregation-example]]
==== Worked example
Imagine a situation where you index the following documents into an index with 2 shards:
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// NOTCONSOLE
==== Other Parameters
[[scripted-metric-aggregation-parameters]]
==== Other parameters
[horizontal]
params:: Optional. An object whose contents will be passed as variables to the `init_script`, `map_script` and `combine_script`. This can be
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// NOTCONSOLE
==== Empty Buckets
[[scripted-metric-aggregation-empty-buckets]]
==== Empty buckets
If a parent bucket of the scripted metric aggregation does not collect any documents an empty aggregation response will be returned from the
shard with a `null` value. In this case the `reduce_script`'s `states` variable will contain `null` as a response from that shard.