How to sort on specific field then on relevance
Documents can easily be sorted based on one field, for instance price:
{
"query" : "phone",
"start" : 0,
"rows" : 10,
"sorts": [
{
"field": "price",
"direction": "ASC"
}
]
}
However, documents with the same price value aren't displayed in any specific order.
A trick to better order such results is to use the relevance score. score is not a real field within the index for these documents -- it is a relevance rank calculated during the querrying. However, it can be used as a second tier of sorting while running the querry.
{
"query" : "phone",
"start" : 0,
"rows" : 10,
"sorts": [
{
"field": "price",
"direction": "ASC"
},
{
"field": "score",
"direction": "DESC"
}
]
}