I am using Qlik rest API's to list all items using items endpoint, sort not working when using +name, or +updatedAt etc, but same with - works

[divya_vishwakarma]

Following below document
https://qlik.dev/apis/rest/items/
It clearly states for ascending and descending order we can use + and -
With - we are able to sort in descending order but with + we get bad request error
 
sort not working when using +name, or +updatedAt etc, but same with - works

[CedLeb · Accepted solution]

Hi Divya,

To make it working you need to URL encode the "+", i.e. "%2B"

So, to apply an ascending sorting by the field "name", you need to call /api/v1/items?sort=%2Bname 

We know it's not really user-friendly and will work on enhancing that.

[divya_vishwakarma]

Thank you for quick response, it works now.

[CedLeb]

Hi Divya,

Digging into this issue with the team, it appears that this issue happens with Postman, and even if the bug is closed now, some users still complain: https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/2517

If you use curl or another client, the "+" should work.

[divya_vishwakarma]

I am using python request module which was also giving me issue with +