# Hits vs getTotalHits
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hits-vs-gettotalhits/19294
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 14, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hits-vs-gettotalhits/19294 "2014-08-14T18:46:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@AsyncAwait](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AsyncAwait)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hits-vs-gettotalhits/19294/1 "2014-08-14T18:46:43Z")
[https://www.evernote.com/shard/s381/sh/79afa662-059a-4c1b-9337-38cf0bd0fcb5/cf9472d78647e00e8470586442d598b1/deep/0/SearchHits.java----Maven--org.elasticsearch-elasticsearch-1.2.2----exzeo-spock------Projects-exzeo-spock-.png](https://www.evernote.com/shard/s381/sh/79afa662-059a-4c1b-9337-38cf0bd0fcb5/cf9472d78647e00e8470586442d598b1/deep/0/SearchHits.java----Maven--org.elasticsearch-elasticsearch-1.2.2----exzeo-spock------Projects-exzeo-spock-.png)
Is this is for backward compatibility? Which is latest one?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hits-vs-gettotalhits/19294/2 "2014-08-14T20:35:14Z")
IIRC, totalHits() was the first form. But some frameworks needed accessors using get/set.
So get was added.
I would use get/set.
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> Le 14 août 2014 à 20:46, AsyncAwait [vadivtk@gmail.com](mailto:vadivtk@gmail.com) a écrit :
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> ## Is this is for backward compatibility? Which is latest one?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hits-vs-gettotalhits/19294/3 "2017-07-06T01:08:24Z")