FilteringTable: sorts even when not requested to

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FilteringTable?.createSorter() returns a compare function even if there is no information on how to sort (sortFunctions array contains 0 elements). It then sorts the rows using this compare function, which returns always 0. Depending on the browser (its internal sorting algorithm) the rows are left alone (IE), or shuffled (Firefox). Per intuition I would suppose FilteringTable? to show the rows in natural order in this case. So I added 3 lines to FilteringTable?.createSorter() (above the final "return" statement):

if (sortFunctions.length == 0) {

return;

}

The only caller within FilteringTable? is render(), which already does the right thing if createSorter() returns undefined.

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suggested patch to be applied to current head of FilteringTable?.js

[guest]

corrected patch - I'm sorry, the first one was nonsense

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I'd like to also see a generic enableSort="true/false" option that's examined inside render(), and when false, skips sorting altogether...

This would avoid having to do noSort="true" on all columns (or manually blanking with FT.sortOptions=[]).

More importantly (imo), it also allows optimization of the initial table rendering. When the initial sort is implicit (say the data comes from a SQL ORDER BY clause), avoiding the redundant sort can save several seconds in initial rendering time.

[bill]

Sorting in new Table widget will be done by dojo.data so we aren't going to fix the sorting builtin to FilteringTable?.