Sorting

[nextapps-de]

Sorting

[ts-thomas]

That's a good point. I will add this feature to the task: "adding complex objects to the index" that makes the result sort-able by any field.

[pantchox]

this is a good solution for categories, but what about sorting by timestamp?

[ThomasG77]

I don't find "Custom sort". It seems it has been dropped since 0.7? Wrong deduction on my side or really removed?

[ts-thomas]

I have already thought about customize sorting. This requires the indexing of more complex objects to sort by different attributes from the index. In this case, the flexible weighting of these attributes for a search would also be possible. I do not know exactly what your search requirements are, but when it comes to filtering, you can already do that pretty well with FlexSearch.

Define helpers:

var index = {};

function add(id, cat, content){
    (index[cat] || (
        index[cat] = new FlexSearch()
    )).add(id, content);
}

function search(cat, query){
    return index[cat] ? index[cat].search(query) : [];
}

Add content to the index:

add(1, "action", "Movie Title");
add(2, "adventure", "Movie Title");
add(3, "comedy", "Movie Title");

Perform queries:

var results = search("action", "movie title"); // --> [1]

This way you can also provide different settings for each category.

[ts-thomas]

Custom sorting is supported now: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch#custom-sort