[Engine-devel] Sorting in tabs

Eli Mesika emesika at redhat.com
Thu Jun 27 10:46:58 UTC 2013



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lior Vernia" <lvernia at redhat.com>
> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 10:12:33 AM
> Subject: [Engine-devel] Sorting in tabs
> 
> Hello everyone (UI peeps in particular),
> 
> I've pushed (not yet merged) a patch that would enable us to keep items
> in tabs (main/sub) sorted at all times by setting a comparator in
> SearchableListModel:

But tabs includes only 100 records and supports paging , how you deal with that ???


> 
> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/15846/
> 
> If a comparator isn't set, then everything should behave as before. If a
> comparator is set, then from that moment on the tab items will be kept
> in a SortedSet, so that even if an item is added in a way that doesn't
> trigger an event (e.g. getItems().add()) the items will be kept sorted
> according to the given comparator. If the comparator is set to null,
> from that moment on the tab should revert to its old behaviour.
> 
> You're most welcome to have a look and let me know if this might break
> something (remember though that it's not obligatory to set a comparator,
> so only possible breakage should be in generic flows).
> 
> Feel free to use it once it's merged; along with SortedListModel, this
> should make sorting less painful. Just keep in mind that once you set a
> comparator, you can't cast getItems() to a List. This shouldn't be a
> problem in general, as mostly it's as useful (and probably more correct)
> to cast to a Collection.
> 
> Lior.
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