# Query and receive response in alphabetic order

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-and-receive-response-in-alphabetic-order/198297>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 5, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-and-receive-response-in-alphabetic-order/198297 "2019-09-05T17:11:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![matheusribeirogarcia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matheusribeirogarcia/32/44363_2.png) [@matheusribeirogarcia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matheusribeirogarcia)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-and-receive-response-in-alphabetic-order/198297/1 "2019-09-05T17:11:09Z")

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Hello everyone, i'm doing a query like this:

`query : { match_all: {}}, _source: 'titulo'};`

And what I receive as response in hits.hits is:

`[{"_index":"xtrorigem","_type":"empresas_publicas","_id":"licencas_ambientais_ibama","_score":1,"_source":{"titulo":"Licenças Ambientais - IBAMA"}},{"_index":"xtrorigem","_type":"empresas_publicas","_id":"empresas_publicas","_score":1,"_source":{"titulo":"Empresas Brasil"}},{"_index":"xtrorigem","_type":"empresas_publicas","_id":"telefones_celulares","_score":1,"_source":{"titulo":"Telefones"}},{"_index":"xtrorigem","_type":"empresas_publicas","_id":"suframa_pessoas","_score":1,"_source":{"titulo":"SUFRAMA - Pessoas"}},{"_index":"xtrorigem","_type":"empresas_publicas","_id":"e105","_score":1,"_source":{"titulo":"Domicílios por Bens Duráveis"}}]`

The thing is, is there a parameter or something to receive that awnser in an alphabetic order? Based on the field "titulo" for example.

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![abdon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/abdon/32/9195_2.png) [@abdon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abdon)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-and-receive-response-in-alphabetic-order/198297/2 "2019-09-08T17:26:45Z")

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Yes, you can add a `sort` clause to your request. [The documentation has some examples](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-body.html#request-body-search-sort).

Something that you want to keep in mind is that if you went with default mappings, then you will want to sort on `titulo.keyword` instead of `titulo`.

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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:** [October 6, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-and-receive-response-in-alphabetic-order/198297/3 "2019-10-06T17:26:49Z")

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