At the moment the Get object is not reusable between exists() and get() the exists() sets get.setCheckExistenceOnly(true) so when you the next get that flag will be true. you can manually set it to false before doing the get, by calling get.setCheckExistenceOnly(false) or you can create a new Get object. This may change in a future version, for now you should use one of the workaround proposed above. ... View more