Not able to sort keyvalue in _source result

[Dipen_Patel]

Hello,

I have json file looks like below and i Imported in to elasticsearch via bulk api,
{ "index": { "_id": 1 }}
{ "guid": "132789","age":"30","title":"helloif graphic design art san franciscofurthermore theyredifferent" }
{ "index": { "_id": 2 }}
{ "guid": "134323","age":"21","title":"associate" }
{ "index": { "_id": 3 }}
{ "guid": "135254","age":"24","title":"associate degreeassociate" }
{ "index": { "_id": 4 }}
{ "guid": "138085","age":"34","title":"associate degreeassociate" }.....etc...

and now search by below post url and getting below result....

url: https//localhost:9200/esearch/my_index/_search?pretty
post body :-
{ "query": { "match": { "title": { "query": "live backlog 7th bachelors 6th ",
"minimum_should_match": "10%"}}}}
result :-
{
"took": 0,
"timed_out": false,
"_shards": {
"total": 1,
"successful": 1,
"skipped": 0,
"failed": 0
},
"hits": {
"total": 30,
"max_score": 9.349399,
"hits": [{
"_index": "user_reco_with_last_login",
"_type": "json",
"_id": "1414",
"_score": 9.349399,
"_source": {
"guid": "252774",
"last_login": "21",
"title": "backlog in 6 sem"
}
},
{
"_index": "user_reco_with_last_login",
"_type": "json",
"_id": "7",
"_score": 4.0327053,
"_source": {
"guid": "131550",
"age": "25",
"title": "bachelors from usa"
}
}
]
}
}

now i want result in descending order of age keyword in _source ....

I tried with adding sort in post body but it is not works....
anybody please help me...

thanks
dipen

[mayya (Mayya Sharipova)]

What type is of your age field?
Did you provide mapping for this field as keyword?

In this case, you can request sorting on this, like:

{
    "sort" : ["age"],
    "query" : {
       ....

If your field is unmapped, there is an option to ignore unmapped fields.