Issue with search Sort

[Eldad7]

Hey,

You can't use Sort properly when using Typescript In order for this: sort: [ { createdDate: { order: "Desc", } } ]

To work - you must mark the entire query with "as any". This is due to the fact that the "sort" types on the file lib/api/types.d.ts is marked as string | string[]. And though it's working for "ASC" sorting, if you need "desc" you have to make some sort of override like this.

I'm using version: 8.2.1

[robscrak]

I am using JSON.stringify for now to fix that problem and it is working for me

[Eldad7]

Hey As I've said there ways to go around that, but I think it shoule be solved since for version 7 it used to work ok with TS (as you can see if you try to use the deprecated "body" version)

[jjayaraman]

I too have this same issue sorting does not work at all. I am on version 6.6.1 and using Typescript. Any help would very much useful and appreciated :-) . Thanks

`

await this.client.indices.refresh({ index })

const searchParams: RequestParams.Search = {
    index,
    body: {
        query
    },
    _source: ['@timestamp'],
    sort: JSON.stringify([{ "@timestamp": { "order": "desc" } }]), // This needs to be a string
    size
}
result = await this.client.search(searchParams)  
return result`

And my results

 [
      { '@timestamp': '2022-07-01T13:35:38.545Z' },
      { '@timestamp': '2022-07-01T13:35:38.531Z' },
      { '@timestamp': '2022-07-04T13:26:47.754Z' },
      { '@timestamp': '2022-07-01T12:44:11.054Z' },
      { '@timestamp': '2022-07-01T15:09:19.114Z' },
      { '@timestamp': '2022-07-02T22:11:40.658Z' },
      { '@timestamp': '2022-07-02T22:12:55.148Z' },
      { '@timestamp': '2022-07-02T22:15:00.430Z' },
      { '@timestamp': '2022-07-03T13:52:53.238Z' },
      { '@timestamp': '2022-07-01T10:12:44.849Z' },
      { '@timestamp': '2022-07-05T10:06:24.919Z' },
      { '@timestamp': '2022-07-06T02:32:59.841Z' },
      { '@timestamp': '2022-07-06T10:08:42.775Z' }
    ]

[vikasvmads]

Hi, If the issue is open, I want to work on it.