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[Gasay-Liza]

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I have a request. I need to sort by: name, language, number of forks, number of stars, update date. Where can I find information about the sort column in a query?

const query = `
query ($query: String!, $first: Int, $last: Int, $after: String, $before: String, ){
  search(type: REPOSITORY,  query:  $query, first: $first, last: $last, after: $after, before: $before) {
    repositoryCount,
    pageInfo {
      startCursor
      hasNextPage
      endCursor
    },
    edges {
      cursor
      node {
        ... on Repository {
          name
          primaryLanguage {
            name
          }
          repositoryTopics(first: 10) {
            nodes {
              topic {
                name
              }
            }
          }
          forkCount
          stargazerCount
          updatedAt
          licenseInfo { 
          name }
        }
      }
      
    }
  }
}
`;

[stolenfallen1]

You can use orderBy argument in the search field.

[Gasay-Liza]

an error appears. What am I doing wrong. I read that search orderBy is not used. Example please)

query {
  search(type: REPOSITORY,  query:  "g", first: 100, orderBy: { field: name, direction: asc } {
    repositoryCount,
    pageInfo {
      startCursor
      hasNextPage
      endCursor
    },
    edges {
      cursor
      node {
        ... on Repository {
          name
          primaryLanguage {
            name
          }
          repositoryTopics(first: 10) {
            nodes {
              topic {
                name
              }
            }
          }
          forkCount
          stargazerCount
          updatedAt
          licenseInfo { 
          name }
        }
      }
      
    }
  }
}

[Gasay-Liza]

[stolenfallen1]

Sorry for the late reply, and a very vague reply to your issue. You have to create a custom argument in this case ( orderBy ) in your query.

Example:

const variables = {
   query: "example",
   first: 10,
   orderBy: {
       field: "Updated_at",  // Use your desired field for sorting
       direction: "DESC"  // ASC - ascending
   }
}

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