How to return results from Azure Search order by values of a given field - azure

Question

below is a example of the search results returned from Azure Search after searching for everything in the gift department (default)
{
"id": "1",
"type": "trousers",
"department": "gift",
"description": "This is the description of the item"
}
{
"id": "2",
"type": "toy",
"department": "gift",
"description": "This is the description of the item"
}
{
"id": "3",
"type": "shirt",
"department": "gift",
"description": "This is the description of the item"
}
The result set required should be ordered by type in this order- toy,shirt,trousers. As you can see the result is not a simple orderby "type" field asc/desc. the expected result should be
{
"id": "2",
"type": "toy",
"department": "gift",
"description": "This is the description of the item"
}
{
"id": "3",
"type": "shirt",
"department": "gift",
"description": "This is the description of the item"
}
{
"id": "1",
"type": "trousers",
"department": "gift",
"description": "This is the description of the item"
}
How do i go about doing this - written descriptions and/or code snippets would be fine?

Answer 1

Assuming you're using .Net SDK for performing the search, you can use OrderBy property of SearchParameters to define the ordering criteria.
Assuming your type field is sortable, you can try something like:
var searchParameters = new SearchParameters();
searchParameters.OrderBy = new List<string>()
{
"type desc"
};