Custom/alphabetical property sorting about json-editor HOT 7 CLOSED

Could be an enhancement.

Is there some JSON-schema spec about it?

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I don't believe there's any way to enforce ordering in JSON-schema, I think an object is by definition unordered in JSON. This would have to be something purely for display convenience. I'm thinking of modifying the sort comparator function in editors/object.js to fall back to alphabetical sorting if propertyOrder is not set on both properties being compared. If you want I can submit that as a pull request, enabled by a new schema options flag, something like alphabetize_properties.

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Are you creating the schema dynamically? If so, why can't you calculate propertyOrder in advance?
Or do you also change the schema when the editor is active?

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I'm not creating a schema dynamically. I suppose I could load the json first, build a schema off of it and use that, but then I'd have to update the schema every time I added a new entry to the database, and I don't think you can switch out the schema on the fly.

My (simplified) schema looks like this:

{
	type: "object",
	options:
	{
		disable_collapse: true,
	},
	additionalProperties:
	{
		type: "object",
		options:
		{
			collapsed: true,
			disable_properties: true
		},
		additionalProperties: false,
		properties:
		{
			name: { type:"string", title: "Name" },
			cat: { type:"string", title: "Catagory" },
			img: { type:"string", title: "Image filename"},
			max: { type:"integer", title: "Max stack size" },
                         <.... many more properties>
		},
		format: "grid"
	}
}

The (simplified) database looks like this:

{
	"wood": {
		"name": "Wood",
		"cat": "goods",
		"img": "wood.png",
		"max": 100
	},
	"stone": {
		"name": "Stone",
		"cat": "goods",
		"img": "stone.png",
		"max": 100
	},
	"hay": {
		"name": "Hay",
		"cat": "goods",
		"img": "hay.png",
		"max": 100
	},
	"thatch": {
		"name": "Thatch",
		"cat": "goods",
		"img": "thatch.png",
		"max": 100
	},
	"peat": {
		"name": "Peat",
		"cat": "goods",
		"img": "peat.png",
		"max": 100
	},
        <100s more items...>
}

The items can be added and removed in the editor, and there are many of them, so it's nice to have them sorted to be able to find them when editing. There is no master list of all items, since admins are always adding more.

Anyway, I understand if this is a special use that's not broadly done. I've already made my own branch with the alphabetical sorting option, and I'm happy to just use that going forward if you'd rather not mess with it in the main branch.

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@rejemy Sounds like an interesting feature. Please submit a pull request.

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This is an interesting issue and I also support property sorting. What I would really like though is that the json Editor keeps the order the keys were in when they were loaded in. Currently, when json is provided to the json editor and the schema does not provide any property order, the editor decides on a new order by itself. In this case, I don't want to specify any order, just keep it as it was.

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Sorry I'd forgotten this issue was still open. My version of json-editor has diverged a bit by this point and I'm pretty happy with it, and it sounds like you'd rather keep the current ordering, so I'm going to close this.

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