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– Nathan Osman2010-05-29 21:10:35 +00:00Commented May 29, 2010 at 21:10
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@George - OR you could take the
questions/{id}/answersroute and specifysort.sorton/questions/{id}applies to the question(s) returned.{id}is vectorized in both cases (in all cases, infact).Kevin Montrose– Kevin Montrose2010-05-30 05:23:05 +00:00Commented 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=falseset.Nathan Osman– Nathan Osman2010-05-30 05:45:10 +00:00Commented 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– Kevin Montrose2010-05-30 06:24:03 +00:00Commented May 30, 2010 at 6:24