How to sort results?

It is possible order the results retrieved by DB2Rest using the sort request parameter. This will apply ORDER BY on the generated SQL query. The general syntax of the sort parameter is shown below:

info

sort=[Column_name];[Sort_Direction],[Column_name];[Sort_Direction],[Column_name];[Sort_Direction]...

The sort parameter takes a list of Column_name and optional Sort_Direction separated by ,.

tip

Sort_Direction

• has two values ASC (Ascending) and DESC (Descending).
• ASC is the default value.

cURL

curl --request GET \
--url 'http://localhost:8080/film?sort=title,rental_duration;desc' \
--header 'User-Agent: insomnia/8.6.1'

HTTPie

http GET 'http://localhost:8080/film?sort=title,rental_duration;desc' \
User-Agent:insomnia/8.6.1

In the above example, films are sorted by the column title in ascending order and then by column rental_duration in descending order.