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Default sort order for GET /movie/top_rated
posted by alfoksSTAFFMOD on March 14, 2018 at 8:51 PM
I understand that the results returned are sorted by vote_average. But if some movies have the same vote_average, how are they sorted then? I don't want to specify my own sort columns. I need to know the default sort order the API uses. I need that info to cache the results for a course project. I'm not allowed to use discovery method, only /movie/top_rated.
Thank you
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 15, 2018 at 1:55 AM
Top rated sort is done on 3 fields for tie breaks to try and ensure a consistent result set:
Reply by alfoks
on March 15, 2018 at 5:27 AM
So I can't reproduce the results localy. Thanks for the reply anyway.