[5.1] Fix sorting on scripted date and boolean fields #9285
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Fix sorting on scripted date and boolean fields
Backports PR #9261
Commit 1:
Fix sorting on scripted date and boolean fields
The elasticsearch API only supports2 sort scripts of type
number
andstring
. Since dates need to be returned as millis since the epoch forvisualizations to work anyway, we can simply add a condition to send dates
as type number in the sort API. ES will cast booleans if we tell them
its a string, so we can add a similar condition there as well.
Fixes: #9257
Commit 2:
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