query.sort should be an array, not an object

[clintongormley]

Because JSON doesn't take order into account, sort should be an array, not an object.

For instance:
sort : {
postDate : {reverse : true},
user : { },
score : { }
}

is the equivalent of:

sort : {
    score : { }
    user : { },
    postDate : {reverse : true},
}

Instead, perhaps this syntax:

sort : [
    "score",
    "user",
    { "postDate": { "reverse": true}} 
]

clint

[kimchy]

Have you seem somewhere that JSON doesn't take order into account? All the parsers that I have seen, for example, do create a linked hash map to represent an object, which means order is maintained. Of course, I don't convert the JSON into "nodes" or maps, but use pull parsing instead, but I still take order into account.

In any case, I agree that the format you mentioned is more coherent. I will add support for that (and the old format as well :) ).

[kimchy]

Allow for the sort search element to speciy the sort fields in an array, closed by 1aa8e01.

[clintongormley]

To be honest, no I hadn't - but I've found this post which discusses the issue http://pmuellr.blogspot.com/2009/04/ordered-javascript-properties.html.

In Perl, hashes (the equivalent structure) are unordered, so I'm glad you're happy to add support for the array form :)

[clintongormley]

Excellent - I can confirm that this is working