Request: sortable tables

[madeddie]

Not really at home in Grails, but would it be a lot of work to allow sorting tables on columns?

I'd very much like to sort on Created of image for instance, also Size and on the repositories list on Tags.

[liyaka]

+1

[madeddie]

The current design does server-side generation of the tables. There is a sortableColumn tag for Grails, but I'm guessing it would be quite inefficient to use that, seeing that the page would have to completely reload all data (and therefor go through all tags again, unless there's some caching going on).

The best way I see for this to work is to move the table generation to the client in javascript. Do you think that'd be a viable plan? If so I can put some time in getting some PoC together.

[mkuchin]

I'd added basic client side table ordering to the tags page.
It available on docker hub as latest version.
@madeddie and @liyaka can you check if this implementation satisfy your needs?

[liyaka]

works fine - thanks!

[madeddie]

Looks good, awesome!
The Created column doesn't sort logically yet though. Maybe you could make it use epoch (seconds since 1970) for that?

[mkuchin]

What's the problem?
I'm using string representation of date in td data-sort attribute.
<td data-sort="2016-04-17T05:34:55"> ... 1 day ago</td>

[madeddie]

I'm not sure how the sorting is using this string, but it doesn't understand natural sorting of it.
See

[mkuchin]

Thanks for screenshot. That looks strange, I can't reproduce it in my environment.
I've changed data-sort attribute value to unix time.
Can you check if it working for you in latest version?

[madeddie]

😳 I ehm, have a plugin that allows me to sort tables in chrome... so... after disabling it, the unix timestamp works fine.
Possibly (probably?) this caused the weirdness with the string-based sort as well.

[mkuchin]

Thanks for update, closing issue.