What is the default sorting of GetItemLinqQueryable?

I want to construct a query with optional parameters in LINQ, basically this code:

IOrderedQueryable<User> query = _userContainer.GetItemLinqQueryable<User>();
if (id != null)
{
    query = query.Where(user => user.Id == id); // returns IQueryable
}
if (name != null)
{
    query = query.Where(user => user.Name == name); // returns IQueryable
}

This doesn’t work because IQueryable cannot be assigned to IOrderedQueryable which GetItemLinqQueryable returns.

To avoid doing an expensive sort operation my theory is that I can apply the same sorting that GetItemLinqQueryable uses in each of these if-blocks. I didn’t find the default sort mentioned in the documentation, so anyone knows what it is?

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[SaurabhSharma-MSFT]

@Sti2nd We are proceeding with the closure with the issue.

[SaurabhSharma-MSFT]

@Sti2nd The recommendation is to use GetItemQueryIterator for queries and the order in which the items are returned depends on the query. For a simple scan like SELECT * FROM c it would return in <partition, rid> order.