Ordering of results in `anyofterms` query

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How does one order the results of a anyofterms based query?

The expectation is that the most relevant matches would be at the top of the result set, but this is not the case.

Example: Try the following on https://docs.dgraph.io/query-language/#term-matching

{
  me(func: anyofterms(name@en, "Judith Jones"), first: 10) {
    name@en
  }
}

This gives the following result set:

{
  "data": {
    "me": [
      {
        "name@en": "Una Brandon-Jones"
      },
      {
        "name@en": "Sasha Frere-Jones"
      },
      {
        "name@en": "Judith Jones"
      },
      {
        "name@en": "Damon Jones"
      },
      {
        "name@en": "Cheyenne Jones"
      },
      {
        "name@en": "Emily Jones"
      },
      {
        "name@en": "Sarah Jones"
      },
      {
        "name@en": "Chester Jones III"
      },
      {
        "name@en": "Ike Jones"
      },
      {
        "name@en": "Richard T. Jones"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Clearly “Judith Jones” is the best match and should be at the top.

Is there a way to get access to the score from the underlying bleve engine? That way we would be able to order the results.

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If you don’t use orderasc or something. It will be ordered by UID. But anyway, this feels like a feature request. “order by best match”.

I don’t think so. There’s no feature like that (score or something). It also feels like a feature request. But I think there is one in that matter and it is already prioritized.

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