Sorting autocomplete results by numeric property

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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Seems, I have an issue with sorting the results. Below is my config:

curl -X PUT localhost:9200/companies -d '

{
"settings" : {
"analysis" : {
"char_filter": {
"punctuation_removal": {
"type": "pattern_replace",
"pattern": "[\.,/]",
"replacement": " "
}
},
"analyzer" : {
"my_edge_ngram_analyzer" : {
"char_filter" :["punctuation_removal"],
"tokenizer" : "my_edge_ngram_tokenizer",
"filter" : ["standard", "lowercase"]
}
},
"tokenizer" : {
"my_edge_ngram_tokenizer" : {
"type" : "edgeNGram",
"min_gram" : "1",
"max_gram" : "5",
"token_chars": [ "letter", "digit" ]
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"company" : {
"properties" : {
"name" : { "type" : "string" },
"count" : {"type": "long" },
"name_suggest" : {
"type" : "completion",
"index_analyzer": "my_edge_ngram_analyzer",
"search_analyzer": "my_edge_ngram_analyzer"
}
}
}
}
}'

Here are examples to put into ES:

curl -X PUT localhost:9200/companies/company/1 -d '
{
  "name" :         "1800flowers",
  "count": 1000,
  "name_suggest" : {
    "input" :      [
      "1800 flowers.Com, Inc",
      "1800 Flowers","1800-Flowers.com",
      "1 800 Flowers",
      "www.1800flowers.com",
      "1800Flowers.com", 
      "Inc,1-800-FLOWERS.COM",
      "1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC",
      "1800Flowers",
      "1800Flowers Inc",
      "1800Flowers.com (Consultant)",
      "1-800-FLOWERS","1800Flowers.com",
      "1800FLOWERS INTERNATIONAL",
      "1-800 Flowers",
      "1-800 FLOWERS.COM, INC",
      "1-800-FLOWERS, Inc",
      "1800 flowers.com",
      "1-800Flowers.com",
      "1-800 flowers.com",
      "1800 Flowers Inc"
    ],
    "output" : "1800 Flowers"
  }
}'

curl -X PUT localhost:9200/companies/company/2 -d '
{
  "name" :         "1800 Ruby",
  "count": 10000,
  "name_suggest" : {
    "input" :      [
     "1800"
    ],
    "output" : "1800 Ruby"
  }
}'

Now clearly if I do a text search on 1800, I should get both of these objects back, giving output "1800 Flowers", "1800 Ruby".

Now really, I would like these results to be sorted by count, descending, so that I should have: "1800 Ruby", "1800 Flowers" but this isn't working!

curl -X POST localhost:9200/companies/_suggest -d '
{
  "query":{
  "companies" : {
    "text" : "18",
    "completion" : {
      "field" : "name_suggest"
    }
  }
  },
  "sort": [ {"count": {"order": "desc"} } ]
}'

So in summary I would firstly like the output to be given, then secondly to list in sorted order by the property count.

Thanks

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I've now figured, one way of doing this is to add a "weight" element in name suggest and hence the largest will be returned. However am I right that there is no way to automatically refer to 'count' which is a property of company.