# Total hits shows 1 and hits array is 0 length
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/total-hits-shows-1-and-hits-array-is-0-length/3052
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 29, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/total-hits-shows-1-and-hits-array-is-0-length/3052 "2010-06-29T20:26:05Z")
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### Author:  [@Samuel\_Doyle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Samuel_Doyle)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/total-hits-shows-1-and-hits-array-is-0-length/3052/1 "2010-06-29T20:26:05Z")
I just did a test where I encountered this. I was asserting on the hit count
which was 1 but there this is no results in the hits.
Any ideas why this is happening?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/total-hits-shows-1-and-hits-array-is-0-length/3052/2 "2010-06-29T20:53:05Z")
Any chance you can share the test?
Lukas
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Samuel Doyle [samueldoyle@gmail.com](mailto:samueldoyle@gmail.com)wrote:
> I just did a test where I encountered this. I was asserting on the hit
> count which was 1 but there this is no results in the hits.
> Any ideas why this is happening?
>
> Thanks
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### Author:  [@Samuel\_Doyle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Samuel_Doyle)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/total-hits-shows-1-and-hits-array-is-0-length/3052/3 "2010-06-29T21:32:57Z")
There is a bit involved in the setup atm I would need to strip out, the one
hit is expected in this case then I follow up with a case where I don't
expect any hits and in that case I have 0 for the hitcount and a 0 length
array which I would expect.
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Lukáš Vlček [lukas.vlcek@gmail.com](mailto:lukas.vlcek@gmail.com) wrote:
> Any chance you can share the test?
>
> Lukas
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Samuel Doyle [samueldoyle@gmail.com](mailto:samueldoyle@gmail.com)wrote:
>
> > I just did a test where I encountered this. I was asserting on the hit
> > count which was 1 but there this is no results in the hits.
> > Any ideas why this is happening?
> >
> > Thanks
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### Author:  [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2010, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/total-hits-shows-1-and-hits-array-is-0-length/3052/4 "2010-06-30T09:06:45Z")
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 13:26 -0700, Samuel Doyle wrote:
> I just did a test where I encountered this. I was asserting on the hit
> count which was 1 but there this is no results in the hits.
> Any ideas why this is happening?
Do you see this consistently? What version are you using? and how many
nodes?
I've seen similar issues, but I can't reproduce them. They just happen
every now and again. I'm running 0.8 with two nodes.
I very occasionally see the wrong results being returned in a search,
like ES has sent a request out to its nodes, then recombined the
responses into the incorrect query.
[Issues · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub](http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues#issue/198)
clint
> Thanks
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### Author:  [@Samuel\_Doyle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Samuel_Doyle)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2010, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/total-hits-shows-1-and-hits-array-is-0-length/3052/5 "2010-06-30T09:26:57Z")
I was seeing this off a master build and it would only happen when
connecting to a running instance if I ran local for integration testing it
was fine. I was only running one node when I was encountering it.
As it turns out though I did an update, clean build and deploy and was not
able to reproduce since and yes I was consistently seeing it happen. Perhaps
a lib was out of sync. or something but I am happy I haven't encountered it
again.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Clinton Gormley [clinton@iannounce.co.uk](mailto:clinton@iannounce.co.uk)wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 13:26 -0700, Samuel Doyle wrote:
>
> > I just did a test where I encountered this. I was asserting on the hit
> > count which was 1 but there this is no results in the hits.
> > Any ideas why this is happening?
>
> Do you see this consistently? What version are you using? and how many
> nodes?
>
> I've seen similar issues, but I can't reproduce them. They just happen
> every now and again. I'm running 0.8 with two nodes.
>
> I very occasionally see the wrong results being returned in a search,
> like ES has sent a request out to its nodes, then recombined the
> responses into the incorrect query.
>
> [Issues · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub](http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues#issue/198)
>
> clint
>
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Web Announcements Limited is a company registered in England and Wales,
> > with company number 05608868, with registered address at 10 Arvon Road,
> > London, N5 1PR.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/total-hits-shows-1-and-hits-array-is-0-length/3052/6 "2017-07-06T04:22:53Z")