# Strange behavior: same id in different types
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-behavior-same-id-in-different-types/18178
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 18, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-behavior-same-id-in-different-types/18178 "2014-06-18T11:57:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Hovsep\_Avakyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hovsep_Avakyan)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-behavior-same-id-in-different-types/18178/1 "2014-06-18T11:57:47Z")
Hi ! I just started play with ES and noted some strange behavior:
First I just indexed 2 documents:
curl -XPUT [http://192.168.0.118:9200/test/company/apple](http://192.168.0.118:9200/test/company/apple) -d '{data:"Apple
corp"}'
curl -XPUT [http://192.168.0.118:9200/test/fruit/apple](http://192.168.0.118:9200/test/fruit/apple) -d '{data:"Just red
apple"}'
As you can see, they have same id and placed in same index,but different
types.
Ok, next I perform multi get request:
curl -XGET [http://192.168.0.118:9200/test/\_mget?pretty](http://192.168.0.118:9200/test/_mget?pretty) -d '{ids:["apple"]}'
Response:
{
"docs" : [ {
"\_index" : "test",
"\_type" : "fruit",
"\_id" : "apple",
"\_version" : 1,
"found" : true, "\_source" : {data:"Just red apple"}
} ]
}
As you can see only one document returned. Why not both? I find such
behavior very ambiguous. I think if we request whole index, so all
documents with given id should be returned regardless of type.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-behavior-same-id-in-different-types/18178/2 "2014-06-19T09:21:32Z")
Hey,
your request is already ambigous. You specify a single ID, but expect two
results to return, as you did not specify a type. However to identify a
document in a unique fashion, you need the tuple of index/type/id, of which
a type is missing here.
So, either specify all three, or maybe elasticsearch should possibly reject
such a request and return an error message. Maybe create a github issue?
--Alex
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Hovsep Avakyan [avakyanhovsep@gmail.com](mailto:avakyanhovsep@gmail.com)
wrote:
> Hi ! I just started play with ES and noted some strange behavior:
>
> First I just indexed 2 documents:
> curl -XPUT [http://192.168.0.118:9200/test/company/apple](http://192.168.0.118:9200/test/company/apple) -d '{data:"Apple
> corp"}'
> curl -XPUT [http://192.168.0.118:9200/test/fruit/apple](http://192.168.0.118:9200/test/fruit/apple) -d '{data:"Just red
> apple"}'
>
> As you can see, they have same id and placed in same index,but different
> types.
> Ok, next I perform multi get request:
>
> curl -XGET [http://192.168.0.118:9200/test/\_mget?pretty](http://192.168.0.118:9200/test/_mget?pretty) -d
> '{ids:["apple"]}'
>
> Response:
>
> {
> "docs" : [ {
> "\_index" : "test",
> "\_type" : "fruit",
> "\_id" : "apple",
> "\_version" : 1,
> "found" : true, "\_source" : {data:"Just red apple"}
> } ]
> }
>
> As you can see only one document returned. Why not both? I find such
> behavior very ambiguous. I think if we request whole index, so all
> documents with given id should be returned regardless of type.
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-behavior-same-id-in-different-types/18178/3 "2017-07-06T01:21:16Z")