Sorting?

[tjswe]

Hi!

First of, great little tool!

If im not missing a setting, would it be possible to do or add sorting of the result?

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/sort-search-results.html

[pteich]

I currently use the Scroll API because my use-case was to load many data very and sorting is not important. As far as I know scrolling does not support sorting as it works differently and can spread the search load to multiple shards. Because of this sorting would need to first collect all data and sort after.

However, ElasticSearch does not recommend to use scrolling anymore and instead use search with of point-in-time value. I'm not sure if this makes sorting possible. But this would need to change parts of the code.

Another idea would be to force a normal search with sorting using a flag if the number of documents is known to be small.