feature request: sort portion of JSON

[alanlivio]

It would be interest sort a portion of valid json. Today the sort, even if a selection, must be a valid json. For instance, I would like to sort only the fields C, B, A bellow.

{
  "C":  "value",
  "B":  "value",
  "A":  "value",
  "NotImportant":  "value",
}

[richie5um]

Good idea, but that feels impractical (aka, very difficult ;-)) - but let me know if you have any ideas.

When I have this, I just use the simple ‘sort lines’ extension.

[alanlivio]

Hi @richie5um. Thank you for your answer.

When I have this, I just use the simple ‘sort lines’ extension. I tried that. But my problem is when the is arrays objects. For instance, I would like to sort only the C, B, A bellow.

{
  "C":  "value",
  "B": {
     "BC":  "value",
     "BB":  "value",
     "BA":  "value",
   },
  "A": "value",
  "NotImportant":  "value",
}

[alanlivio]

I understand the difficulty of this and I close the issue.

[ian-h-chamberlain]

Hi, I had the idea to try just wrapping the selection in {} and sort that, and it seems to work! I opened a draft PR #74 to add this feature to the extension if you are interested.