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If I retrieve a question like so:

http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/1429951&sort=votes

I expect the answers to be sorted by votes, but they're not.

How can I do this?

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I believe the sort=votes parameter is for when you are retrieving multiple questions in one API call, such as with this URL - the questions in the response are ordered by vote.

http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/1429951;2383701;619895?sort=votes&type=jsontext

In terms of how you could sort the responses - you do have the up + the down vote count from which you could sort on your application side, or you could make another request to the api with the extracted answer IDs and sort=votes, which is really a waste of resources when you already have all the data.

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  • Hmmm... I never thought of sorting on the application side. I'll look into that.
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented May 29, 2010 at 21:10
  • @George - OR you could take the questions/{id}/answers route and specify sort. sort on /questions/{id} applies to the question(s) returned. {id} is vectorized in both cases (in all cases, infact).
    – Kevin Montrose
    Commented May 30, 2010 at 5:23
  • @Kevin: Oh, okay. I just thought it was wasteful to fetch the question and then all the answers. I guess it won't hurt if the first request has body=false set.
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented May 30, 2010 at 5:45
  • @George - /questions/{id} only gives you the first "page" of answers anyway. If its the full set of answers (by answer_count) you should do the sort locally. Otherwise a second request is necessary anyway, might as well have the sorting done on our end.
    – Kevin Montrose
    Commented May 30, 2010 at 6:24

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