Sorting

Request

Method: POST

Endpoint: /v1.4/search

Fields

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
customer_id	String	Yes		Random unique customer id generate by PA tracker
website_id	String	Yes		Client unique website id provided by PA
q	String	Yes		Input search query string
client	String	Yes		Unique client shortcode provided by PA
start	Integer	Yes		Defines the offset from the first result you want to fetch
size	Integer	No	20	The max number of results you want returned with your query
sort_fields	Object Array	No	Relevance Score	Sorting search results based on item's numeric and text attributes. Multiple attributes sorting is supported. Sorting of numeric custom attribute are also supported

Examples

Example 1 - Sort the results by a field named sale_price of type number in ascending order.

curl --location 'https://<PA_SEARCH_END_POINT>/v1.4/search' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer cGFTZXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXA==' \
    --data '{
        "customer_id": "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX",
        "website_id": "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX",
        "q": "SEARCH STRING",
        "client": "CLIENT SHORTCODE",
        "start": 0,
        "size": 1,
        "sort_fields":[{"sale_price":{"order":"asc", "type": "number"}}]
    }'

Example 2 - Sort the results by a field named org_price of type number in descending order.

curl --location 'https://<PA_SEARCH_END_POINT>/v1.4/search' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer cGFTZXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXA==' \
    --data '{
        "customer_id": "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX",
        "website_id": "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX",
        "q": "SEARCH STRING",
        "client": "CLIENT SHORTCODE",
        "start": 0,
        "size": 1,
        "sort_fields":[{"org_price":{"order":"desc", "type": "number"}}]
    }'

Example 3 - Sort the results by org_price followed by a field named title of type text in ascending order.

curl --location 'https://<PA_SEARCH_END_POINT>/v1.4/search' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer cGFTZXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXA==' \
    --data '{
        "customer_id": "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX",
        "website_id": "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX",
        "q": "SEARCH STRING",
        "client": "CLIENT SHORTCODE",
        "start": 0,
        "size": 1,
        "sort_fields":[{"org_price":{"order":"desc", "type": "number"}, {"title":{"order":"asc", "type": "text"}}}]
    }'

Response

{
  "payload": {
    ***,
    "result": [
      {
        ***,
        "availability": -1,
        "org_price": "10"
        "title": "Sample item 1",
        ***
      },
      {
        ***,
        "availability": -1,
        "org_price": "9"
        "title": "Sample item 2",
        ***
      },
      {
        ***,
        "availability": 0,
        "org_price": "11"
        "title": "Sample item 3",
        ***
      },
      {
        ***,
        "availability": 0,
        "org_price": "10"
        "title": "Sample item 4",
        ***
      }
    ],
    "total_results": 50,
    "suggestions" : {***},
    "redirects" : {***}
  },
  "type": 1
}