Exception when sorting on geo_point

[dadoonet]

By mistake, I clicked on the sort button on a geo_point column.

Which leads me to this error:

Segmented Fetch: SearchPhaseExecutionException[Failed to execute phase [query], all shards failed; shardFailures {[ac-m7BnNQeSQSbe8OGl-vA][person][0]: SearchParseException[[person][0]: from[-1],size[500]: Parse Failure [Failed to parse source [{"size":500,"sort":{"address.location":"desc"},"aggs":{"agg_25":{"date_histogram":{"field":"dateOfBirth","interval":"31536000000ms","min_doc_count":0,"extended_bounds":{"min":"1939-12-31T23:00:00.000Z","max":"2010-12-31T23:00:00.000Z"}}}},"query":{"filtered":{"query":{"match_all":{}},"filter":{"bool":{"must":[{"range":{"dateOfBirth":{"gte":-946774800000,"lte":1293836400000}}}],"must_not":[]}}}}}]]]; nested: ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException[can't sort on geo_point field without using specific sorting feature, like geo_distance]; }{[ac-m7BnNQeSQSbe8OGl-vA][person][1]: SearchParseException[[person][1]: from[-1],size[500]: Parse Failure [Failed to parse source [{"size":500,"sort":{"address.location":"desc"},"aggs":{"agg_25":{"date_histogram":{"field":"dateOfBirth","interval":"31536000000ms","min_doc_count":0,"extended_bounds":{"min":"1939-12-31T23:00:00.000Z","max":"2010-12-31T23:00:00.000Z"}}}},"query":{"filtered":{"query":{"match_all":{}},"filter":{"bool":{"must":[{"range":{"dateOfBirth":{"gte":-946774800000,"lte":1293836400000}}}],"must_not":[]}}}}}]]]; nested: ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException[can't sort on geo_point field without using specific sorting feature, like geo_distance]; }{[ac-m7BnNQeSQSbe8OGl-vA][person][2]: SearchParseException[[person][2]: from[-1],size[500]: Parse Failure [Failed to parse source [{"size":500,"sort":{"address.location":"desc"},"aggs":{"agg_25":{"date_histogram":{"field":"dateOfBirth","interval":"31536000000ms","min_doc_count":0,"extended_bounds":{"min":"1939-12-31T23:00:00.000Z","max":"2010-12-31T23:00:00.000Z"}}}},"query":{"filtered":{"query":{"match_all":{}},"filter":{"bool":{"must":[{"range":{"dateOfBirth":{"gte":-946774800000,"lte":1293836400000}}}],"must_not":[]}}}}}]]]; nested: ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException[can't sort on geo_point field without using specific sorting feature, like geo_distance]; }{[ac-m7BnNQeSQSbe8OGl-vA][person][3]: SearchParseException[[person][3]: from[-1],size[500]: Parse Failure [Failed to parse source [{"size":500,"sort":{"address.location":"desc"},"aggs":{"agg_25":{"date_histogram":{"field":"dateOfBirth","interval":"31536000000ms","min_doc_count":0,"extended_bounds":{"min":"1939-12-31T23:00:00.000Z","max":"2010-12-31T23:00:00.000Z"}}}},"query":{"filtered":{"query":{"match_all":{}},"filter":{"bool":{"must":[{"range":{"dateOfBirth":{"gte":-946774800000,"lte":1293836400000}}}],"must_not":[]}}}}}]]]; nested: ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException[can't sort on geo_point field without using specific sorting feature, like geo_distance]; }{[ac-m7BnNQeSQSbe8OGl-vA][person][4]: SearchParseException[[person][4]: from[-1],size[500]: Parse Failure [Failed to parse source [{"size":500,"sort":{"address.location":"desc"},"aggs":{"agg_25":{"date_histogram":{"field":"dateOfBirth","interval":"31536000000ms","min_doc_count":0,"extended_bounds":{"min":"1939-12-31T23:00:00.000Z","max":"2010-12-31T23:00:00.000Z"}}}},"query":{"filtered":{"query":{"match_all":{}},"filter":{"bool":{"must":[{"range":{"dateOfBirth":{"gte":-946774800000,"lte":1293836400000}}}],"must_not":[]}}}}}]]]; nested: ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException[can't sort on geo_point field without using specific sorting feature, like geo_distance]; }]

I think we should not allow sorting on such a column.

[dadoonet]

I did not test it but I guess this could be applied to most of the "not known as sortable type" such as geo_shape, attachment and whatever type that could be provided as a plugin in elasticsearch.

So may be we should change the title for this issue and adapt the PR?