# No Type Request

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-type-request/4267>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 20, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-type-request/4267 "2011-04-20T18:40:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![davrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@davrob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davrob)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-type-request/4267/1 "2011-04-20T18:40:16Z")

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I would like to do a Request on an alias without any type, or else to  
specify all possible types. So far I can only see how to do a query  
like this with the Java API:

```
    getClient().prepareGet().setIndex(getIndexName()).setId("" +

```

contactId).setType(null)

Which throws a validation "type is missing" error.

David.

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-type-request/4267/2 "2011-04-20T22:45:24Z")

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Hey, you need to provide both the type and the id to fetch a document.  
On Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 9:40 PM, davrob2 wrote:

> I would like to do a Request on an alias without any type, or else to  
> specify all possible types. So far I can only see how to do a query  
> like this with the Java API:
> 
> getClient().prepareGet().setIndex(getIndexName()).setId("" +  
> contactId).setType(null)
> 
> Which throws a validation "type is missing" error.
> 
> David.

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**Author:** ![davrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@davrob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davrob)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-type-request/4267/3 "2011-04-21T09:48:20Z")

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Is there a way that I can specify to search across all types in the  
index? e.g. .setTypes("type1","type2","type3")

On Apr 20, 11:45 pm, Shay Banon [shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com) wrote:

> Hey, you need to provide both the type and the id to fetch a document.
> 
> On Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 9:40 PM, davrob2 wrote:
> 
> > I would like to do a Request on an alias without any type, or else to  
> > specify all possible types. So far I can only see how to do a query  
> > like this with the Java API:
> 
> > getClient().prepareGet().setIndex(getIndexName()).setId("" +  
> > contactId).setType(null)
> 
> > Which throws a validation "type is missing" error.
> 
> > David.

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**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-type-request/4267/4 "2011-04-21T10:09:32Z")

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Hi David

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 02:48 -0700, davrob2 wrote:

> Is there a way that I can specify to search across all types in the  
> index? e.g. .setTypes("type1","type2","type3")

You can search across all types, or a list of types.

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I'm not sure how that is implemented in the Java API

clint

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-type-request/4267/5 "2017-07-06T04:07:59Z")

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