# How to set Sort Order to "\_doc" using TransportClient

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-sort-order-to--doc-using-transportclient/58869>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 24, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-sort-order-to--doc-using-transportclient/58869 "2016-08-24T22:11:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![cheruvian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cheruvian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheruvian)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-sort-order-to--doc-using-transportclient/58869/1 "2016-08-24T22:11:01Z")

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I'm doing a Scroll request but I'm not sure how to set my sort order to "\_doc" using the TransportClient.

The only options I see are

```
public SearchRequestBuilder addSort(String field, SortOrder order) {

```

and

```
public SearchRequestBuilder addSort(SortBuilder sort) {

```

I don't want to sort on a field so that didn't seem right. I looked for a SortBuilder but I only found those off of `SortBuilders`

Any help here would be great. and/or how to implement my own sortBuilder that returns the proper value.

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**Author:** ![cheruvian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cheruvian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheruvian)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-sort-order-to--doc-using-transportclient/58869/2 "2016-08-25T05:14:27Z")

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Found it. Looks like you're meant to use:

```
.addSort(SortParseElement.DOC_FIELD_NAME, SortOrder.ASC)

```

per: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-api/current/java-search-scrolling.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-api/current/java-search-scrolling.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-sort-order-to--doc-using-transportclient/58869/3 "2017-07-05T22:25:21Z")

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