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mfeltscher
Expert
11 years ago

Get polls ordered by their start_date

Hi there   I'm trying to get the active poll with the most recent start date. Therefore I'm looking for a ReST API call to get polls ordered by their start date. Is this possible somehow? How are ...
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    nathan
    11 years ago

    I don't know about polls specifically, but you can't normally order REST query results. However, you can sort the results in FreeMarker, so you can create a custom endpoint to achieve this.

     

    For example, I've used this technique to get a list of all products ordered by average rating.

     

    The FreeMarker reference for sorting sequences is here:

    http://freemarker.org/docs/ref_builtins_sequence.html#ref_builtin_sort

     

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nathan
Executive
11 years ago

I don't know about polls specifically, but you can't normally order REST query results. However, you can sort the results in FreeMarker, so you can create a custom endpoint to achieve this.

 

For example, I've used this technique to get a list of all products ordered by average rating.

 

The FreeMarker reference for sorting sequences is here:

http://freemarker.org/docs/ref_builtins_sequence.html#ref_builtin_sort