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				|  |  |  }'
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				|  |  |  --------------------------------------------------
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				|  |  | +[float]
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				|  |  | +[[type]]
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				|  |  | +=== Optional Type
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +The mget API allows for `_type` to be optional. Set it to `_all` or leave it empty in order
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				|  |  | +to fetch the first document matching the id across all types.
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +If you don't set the type and have many documents sharing the same `_id`, you will end up
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				|  |  | +getting only the first matching document.
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				|  |  | +For example, if you have a document 1 within typeA and typeB then following request
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				|  |  | +will give you back only the same document twice:
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +[source,js]
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				|  |  | +--------------------------------------------------
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				|  |  | +curl 'localhost:9200/test/_mget' -d '{
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				|  |  | +    "ids" : ["1", "1"]
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				|  |  | +}'
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				|  |  | +--------------------------------------------------
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				|  |  | +You need in that case to explicitly set the `_type`:
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  | +[source,js]
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				|  |  | +--------------------------------------------------
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				|  |  | +GET /test/_mget/
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				|  |  | +{
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				|  |  | +  "docs" : [
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				|  |  | +        {
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				|  |  | +            "_type":"typeA",
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				|  |  | +            "_id" : "1"
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				|  |  | +        },
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				|  |  | +        {
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				|  |  | +            "_type":"typeB",
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				|  |  | +            "_id" : "1"
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				|  |  | +        }
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				|  |  | +    ]
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				|  |  | +}
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				|  |  | +--------------------------------------------------
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				|  |  | +
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				|  |  |  [float]
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				|  |  |  [[mget-source-filtering]]
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				|  |  |  === Source filtering
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