No mapping found for field in order to sort on in ElasticSearch

Question

Elasticsearch throws a SearchParseException while parsing query if there are some documents found not containing field used in sort criteria.

Answer 1

You could also use script which gives you some flexibility:

"sort" : {
    "_script" : {
        "type" : "number",
        "script" : {
            "lang": "painless",
            "source": "return !doc['price'].empty ? doc['price'].value : 0"
        },
        "order" : "desc"
    }
}