# Java SearchHits provides out-of-order results when sort order provided in query
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-searchhits-provides-out-of-order-results-when-sort-order-provided-in-query/35110
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 20, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-searchhits-provides-out-of-order-results-when-sort-order-provided-in-query/35110 "2015-11-20T01:46:28Z")
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### Author:  [@tbessie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbessie)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-searchhits-provides-out-of-order-results-when-sort-order-provided-in-query/35110/1 "2015-11-20T01:46:28Z")
I'm using Elasticsearch 1.5.2, and after doing a search that specifies a sort order; when I run the generated JSON (as copied from the Java objects), the results appear in the desired sorted order.
However, when I extract search results as below, the results aren't in the same order.
Unless I'm doing something wrong here, I expect that this version of Elasticsearch perhaps is using a non-ordered Collection to store the search hits, causing this to happen. Does anyone know if this is the case, and if there's a workaround?
Incidentally, I have the source jar for this version of Elasticsearch, but for some reason the com.elasticsearch.search subpackage is not included in that source jar...
- Tim
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### Author:  [@tbessie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbessie)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-searchhits-provides-out-of-order-results-when-sort-order-provided-in-query/35110/2 "2015-11-20T02:01:48Z")
Nevermind, folks, I found out it's because I'm using the SCAN type query, which doesn't sort.
It pays to read ALL the documentation - sorry! 😉
- Tim
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-searchhits-provides-out-of-order-results-when-sort-order-provided-in-query/35110/3 "2017-07-05T23:37:06Z")