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Serverless

Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments.

Stack

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

Use a Painless script to sort the documents in a query.

params (Map, read-only)
User-defined parameters passed in as part of the query.
doc (Map, read-only)
Contains the fields of the current document. For single-valued fields, the value can be accessed via doc['fieldname'].value. For multi-valued fields, this returns the first value; other values can be accessed via doc['fieldname'].get(index)
_score (double read-only)
The similarity score of the current document.
double or String
The sort key. The return type depends on the value of the type parameter in the script sort config ("number" or "string").

The standard Painless API is available.

To run the example, first install the eCommerce sample data.

The following request sorts documents by the average price per item, calculated by dividing the taxful_total_price by the total_quantity.

Documents with a higher average item price appear at the top of the results.

JSON 
GET /kibana_sample_data_ecommerce/_search
{
  "sort": {
    "_script": {
      "type": "number",
      "script": {
        "lang": "painless",
        "source": """
            doc['taxful_total_price'].value / doc['total_quantity'].value
        """
      },
      "order": "desc"
    }
  }
}