From 881438de7c6d070c91adc4725d445630a4151342 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Honza=20Kr=C3=A1l?= <honza.kral@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 10:27:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make count consistent with search

---
 elasticsearch/client/__init__.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/elasticsearch/client/__init__.py b/elasticsearch/client/__init__.py
index 5ae18e7e..0c28a10e 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/client/__init__.py
+++ b/elasticsearch/client/__init__.py
@@ -681,6 +681,9 @@ class Elasticsearch(object):
         :arg routing: Specific routing value
         :arg source: The URL-encoded query definition (instead of using the request body)
         """
+        if doc_type and not index:
+            index = '_all'
+
         _, data = self.transport.perform_request('POST', _make_path(index, doc_type, '_count'),
             params=params, body=body)
         return data