No mapping found for field in order to sort on in ElasticSearch

Question

Elasticsearch throws a SearchParseException while parsing query if there are some documents found not containing field used in sort criteria.

Answer 1

Let me try to help in the case that the original answer doesn't work for you. For ES 6.x try the code below, ignore_unmapped is deprecated.

"sort" : [
       { "rating": {"order" : "desc" , "unmapped_type" : "long"} },
       { "price": {"order" : "asc" , "missing" : "_last" , "unmapped_type" : "long"} }
]

More about sorting you can find on:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/search-request-sort.html