# I'm still able to define a document type in 7.9. Is this a bug?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/im-still-able-to-define-a-document-type-in-7-9-is-this-a-bug/247125
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/im-still-able-to-define-a-document-type-in-7-9-is-this-a-bug/247125 "2020-09-01T15:53:24Z")
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### Author:  [@Vitaly\_il](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vitaly_il)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/im-still-able-to-define-a-document-type-in-7-9-is-this-a-bug/247125/1 "2020-09-01T15:53:24Z")
By adding a new document this way
```auto
curl --location --request PUT 'http://localhost:9200/example1/product/1' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"title": "example title",
"author": "example author",
"category": "books"
}'
```
I'm able to add document with "\_type": "product", even this is deprecated according to [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/removal-of-types.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/removal-of-types.html).
Is this a feature or bug?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/im-still-able-to-define-a-document-type-in-7-9-is-this-a-bug/247125/2 "2020-09-02T01:48:27Z")
It's expected behaviour. It so that people have time to switch over to no types.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/im-still-able-to-define-a-document-type-in-7-9-is-this-a-bug/247125/3 "2020-09-30T01:48:42Z")
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