spring-data mongodb and sorting with multiple fields

[jelinden]

I have two fields I want to sort with

(order by clicks descending, date descending)

query.sort().on("clicks", Order.DESCENDING);
query.sort().on("date", Order.DESCENDING);

With this it won't work, date is always messing the whole sort. Both work separately, but not together. I might be doing this the wrong way, but didn't come up with anything else.


Is anyone else doing something like this?

[trisberg]

Have you tried:

query.sort().on("clicks", Order.DESCENDING).on("date", Order.DESCENDING);

If so what is the result?

[jelinden]

Yes, I've tried, the result is the same.
For some reason the sort with date is always the number one sort.

Behauviour of these are exactly the same:
query.sort().on("date", Order.DESCENDING).on("clicks", Order.DESCENDING);
query.sort().on("clicks", Order.DESCENDING).on("date", Order.DESCENDING);

[jelinden]

Really strange, made a simplified test to reproduce this, but it worked correctly.

As a last resort I added an index:
mongoTemplate.ensureIndex("collection", new Index("clicks", Order.DESCENDING).on("date", Order.DESCENDING));

this didn't help straight away. But by accident I removed .on("date", Order.DESCENDING); from the actual search sort ... and ... it works now.

[blakgeek]

I don't know if you ever solved this or not. But in case someone else runs into it, I solved it by modifying the Sort class to use a LinkedHashMap so that the order would be maintained. I also entered a jira ticket so hopefully it will be fixed in the next version.

[Oliver Gierke]

Fixed and will be available in tonights snapshot: https://jira.springsource.org/browse/DATADOC-177