rrickgauer
commented
3 years ago Requests that should allow for sorting:
- /product-categories
- /users/products
- /search/locations
- /search/products
Sort by having :?sort=field_name:[asc|desc]. If no sort type (asc, desc) is specified, asc is used. Or, asc is the default sort type.
Each resource that has the option to sort needs to have a default field to sort on. This is for when no sort paramter is specified in the URL.
One approach to handle this is to make a request sort class. The data members could be:
- field_name
- type: asc or desc
Most classes, Product for example, have a static method that gets called to retrieve all of a user's products. I can create a static property that can be the default sort field for each class. That way it can have a default sort field, if one wasn't provided.
Setup a sorting parameter for requests that return multiple objects