Facet query with "facet.sort": "count" not returning sorted facets

[Kerruba]

Facet query with "facet.sort": "count" not returning sorted facets

[nickvasilyev]

Hi,

That method returns a regular python dictionary; it's main goal is to just pull it from the response. However, as I am sure you know python dictionaries aren't sorted. You can very easily sort it yourself when you retrieve the data though:

d = {
    "Arthrobacter siderocapsulatus": 433,
    "Enterobacter aglomerans": 39,
    "Genetic endocrine tumor": 32,
    "ETOP": 15,
    "lymphoid lineage restricted progenitor cell": 47,
    "Escherichia coli O157:H7 EDL933": 127,
    "deferoxaminum": 2,
    "Bacillus francki": 472,
    "srf": 9,
    "Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors": 9,
    "Pancreas Cancer": 122,}
>>> for k in sorted(d, key=d.get, reverse=True):
...     print(k)
... 
Bacillus francki
Arthrobacter siderocapsulatus
Escherichia coli O157:H7 EDL933
Pancreas Cancer
lymphoid lineage restricted progenitor cell
Enterobacter aglomerans
Genetic endocrine tumor
ETOP
srf
Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors
deferoxaminum

[Kerruba]

Thanks,

could be an improvement making the returned dictionary sorted automatically if the query has a facet.sort key inside? Otherwise, practically that option is going to be not useful

[nickvasilyev]

Thanks for the feedback.

That option is used by Solr to select what data to return. If you have 100 values, but you are only pulling out 10; the sorting will determine which 10 it is.