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Bug 342723

Summary:	Provide improved sorting mechanism
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Patrick Pastoor <pp>
Component:	Nebula	Assignee:	Donald Dunne <donald.g.dunne>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	pp
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Patrick Pastoor

2011-04-13 10:35:21 EDT

The current sorting mechanism provided with XViewer does not allow users to disable sorting - but sometimes this is needed eg. for composites which support paging and only show a part of the resultset in the viewer. In this case a click on a column-header should fire sth. like a 'SortingChangedEvent'. Clients can catch this event to build up a new sql-result or to sort the whole resultset and then set the new input to the viewer.

My proposal would be:
- add method to xViewer/xViewerFactory: setSortingType(Enum<Normal, NewInput, None>)
- add method to xViewer/xViewerFactory: addSortingChangedListener(...)
- for type 'NewInput' fire a 'SortingChangedEvent' with the new sorting as data and let clients decide to manipulate/refresh the viewer by adding new input.

Comment 1 Donald Dunne

2011-08-17 17:04:47 EDT

sounds fine to me, if you would like to provide the enhancement via a patch, I'll be happy to take a look

Comment 2 Donald Dunne

2012-04-30 14:25:19 EDT

Provide patch through new bugzilla when able.