[[painless-bucket-script-agg-context]]
=== Bucket script aggregation context

Use a Painless script in an
{ref}/search-aggregations-pipeline-bucket-script-aggregation.html[`bucket_script` pipeline aggregation]
to calculate a value as a result in a bucket.

==== Variables

`params` (`Map`, read-only)::
        User-defined parameters passed in as part of the query. The parameters
        include values defined as part of the `buckets_path`.

==== Return

numeric::
        The calculated value as the result.

==== API

The standard <<painless-api-reference, Painless API>> is available.

==== Example

To run this example, first follow the steps in <<painless-context-examples, context examples>>.

The painless context in a `bucket_script` aggregation provides a `params` map. This map contains both
user-specified custom values, as well as the values from other aggregations specified in the `buckets_path`
property.

This example takes the values from a min and max aggregation, calculates the difference,
and adds the user-specified base_cost to the result:

[source,Painless]
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(params.max - params.min) + params.base_cost
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Note that the values are extracted from the `params` map. In context, the aggregation looks like this:

[source,console]
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GET /seats/_search
{
  "size": 0,
  "aggs": {
    "theatres": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "theatre",
        "size": 10
      },
      "aggs": {
        "min_cost": {
          "min": {
            "field": "cost"
          }
        },
        "max_cost": {
          "max": {
            "field": "cost"
          }
        },
        "spread_plus_base": {
          "bucket_script": {
            "buckets_path": { <1>
              "min": "min_cost",
              "max": "max_cost"
            },
            "script": {
              "params": {
                "base_cost": 5 <2>
              },
              "source": "(params.max - params.min) + params.base_cost"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TEST[setup:seats]

<1> The `buckets_path` points to two aggregations (`min_cost`, `max_cost`) and adds `min`/`max` variables
to the `params` map
<2> The user-specified `base_cost` is also added to the script's `params` map