Category sort = 'position:asc' does not reflect the order set within magento categories

Current behavior

Currently it does not seem possible to display products within categories using the order specified in the Magento admin.

I am able to see the position number in the elastic data using Kibana. When using the new magento2-vsbridge-indexer you can see this in the categories attribute against a product.

When using the mage2vuestorefront to import data, the position number is set on extension_attributes.category_links

In either case, setting sort = ‘position:asc’ or ‘position:desc’ makes no difference to the sorting of products.

Expected behavior

When sort = ‘position:asc’ products within categories should be ordered as per the order field within magento admin

Steps to reproduce the issue

Either using postman to hit the api directly or by configuring the storefront to sort products by position:asc products will not sort by the position number. And position:desc returns products in same position as position:asc.

Can you handle fixing this bug by yourself?

• YES
• NO

Which [Release Cycle]

• This is a bug report for test version on https://test.storefrontcloud.io - In this case Developer should create branch from develop branch and create Pull Request 2. Feature / Improvement back to develop.
• This is a bug report for current Release Candidate version on https://next.storefrontcloud.io - In this case Developer should create branch from release branch and create Pull Request 3. Stabilisation fix back to release.
• This is a bug report for current Stable version on https://demo.storefrontcloud.io and should be placed in next stable version hotfix - In this case Developer should create branch from hotfix or master branch and create Pull Request 4. Hotfix back to hotfix.

[dio5]

I had it working by adding something like this to SearchAdapter.ts:

if (Request.type === 'product' && Request.sort) {
      const sortType = Request.sort.split(':', 2)
      if (sortType[0] === 'position') {
        const searchQuery = Request.searchQuery;
        const categories = searchQuery.getAppliedFilters().find(element => element.attribute === 'category_ids')
        let mainCategoryId = null
        if (categories && categories.value) {
          mainCategoryId = categories.value.in[0]
          if (mainCategoryId) {
            ElasticsearchQueryBody['sort'] = [{
              'category.position': {
                'order': sortType[1] || 'asc',
                'mode': 'min',
                'nested_path': 'category',
                'nested_filter': {
                  'term': {'category.category_id': mainCategoryId}
                }
              }
            }]
          }
        }
     }
 }

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[simonmaass]

we are currently struggling with this exact problem - any solution yet? We are using VSF 1.12.2…