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Sorting Strings in Typesense

TLDR Darren receives guidance on sorting strings in Typesense from hi019 and Jason, who offered to upgrade his cloud cluster to an RC build with the string sort feature.

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Dec 26, 2021 (21 months ago)

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Darren

11:01 PM

Folks, new to Typsense, working on a prototype ... looks great so far. Just one issue - sorting by strings. (!) I see from the docs that the sort_by param is only for numeric values. So if I want to sort by name (string), I guess I would need some way to covert to a number and sort ... is there a convention on how to do this? Or am I missing something? How are you guys sorting alphabetically?

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hi019

11:45 PM

There’s a preview build available for string sorting https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/117#issuecomment-1000857228

Darren

11:49 PM

Ok, this is really great. I just need to sort by 'name' - which is usually very short strings.
Since I'm not running local (typesense cloud), any eta on when 0.23 will hit production?

hi019

11:55 PM

No idea — I’m just a contributor to Typesense. Jason will be able to give you a better answer. But I’ve seen them manually update Cloud clusters to Preview, maybe request that

Darren

11:58 PM

Ok much appreciated hi019

hi019

11:58 PM

Pretty sure if you say Algolia 3 times they will magically appear. Or maybe that only works on Hacker News 😁

Darren

11:58 PM

lol!

11:58

Darren

11:58 PM

New here ... but I guess that's just how it is huh 😉

hi019

11:59 PM

Nah just kidding, they’re very helpful here and usually respond promptly

Dec 27, 2021 (21 months ago)

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Jason

12:26 AM

Lol 😂

12:28

Jason

12:28 AM

Darren happy to upgrade your Typesense Cloud cluster to the RC build with this feature. Could you email [email protected] with your cluster ID?

12:30

Jason

12:30 AM

We typically encourage folks to run RC builds ahead of the GA release. GA usually happens when we’ve accumulated enough features / fixes to warrant a GA

Darren

01:04 AM

Jason If you can surgically do that, I'm great for testing, I'm in prototype mode so it's non-critical. Sending cluster .... done!

Jason

03:36 AM

Darren - we've upgraded your cluster to the latest RC build with the sort_by string feature

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