Google places autocomplete - location and radius not working

Question

Im trying to set the google places autocomplete to sort the results from the nearest to a point. I have a code like this...

Answer 1

It's possible that someone may not be agree with me but In my case i defined the radius without quotes i.e like below

 var request = {
    location: pyrmont,
        bounds: map.getBounds(),
    radius: 2000,
    zoom: 15,
    types: ['restaurant']
  };

So it didn't make any difference on radius and showed the result independent of radius but when i applied quotes on it , radius parameter seems to be working

 var request = {
    location: pyrmont,
        bounds: map.getBounds(),
    radius: '2000',
    zoom: 15,
    types: ['restaurant']
  };