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bug: iot CreateThing does not respond correctly for when thing exists and the input requested for a different thing type. #10002

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Current Behavior

It responds with with a success.

Expected Behavior

It should be responding with a ResourceAlreadyExistsException error.

How are you starting LocalStack?

With a docker-compose file

Steps To Reproduce

  1. Create a thing with ThingType of "a"
  2. Create a thing again with the same ThingName but different ThingType, ie "b".

AWS responds with ResourceAlreadyExistsException.
Localstack succeeds.

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- OS:
- LocalStack:

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