Re: Sort criteria in Search Request

> > A lot of targets, according to their Supported Requests info in Init don't
> > support sort. And a lot of the ones that claim it, don't in truth.

> Can you expand on this Rob? What exactly are these targets not doing?

Sure.

In the Init response, they claim to support Sort. However as far as I can
tell, they accept the search PDU, but can't process it and return a sort
failure.  And this is for something as simple as sorting by the single
attribute that was used in the search.

eg:
1. init
2. search for author=Sanderson
3. sort on author attribute    --> Sort failure code and no resultset

It could be, of course, that our PDU encoding is wrong but as it accepts
the request but returns a failure I suspect that it isn't.

Does anyone support SortDetails in Explain?

Rob

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