sortbylist

Small helper to sort a collection by a given list of id's

Install

  npm install sortbylist

Initialize

var sortByList = require( "sortbylist" );
 
var DATA = [
    {id: "A"},
    {id: "B"},
    {id: "C"},
    {id: "D"},
    {id: "E"},
    {id: "F"}
];
 
sorted = sortByList( DATA, [ "D", "C", "B" ] )
// sorted will have the order D, C, B, A, E, F
// unsorted id's because the rest will be added tt the end

Arguments

• data : ( Object[] required ) A collection to sort
• list : ( Array optional: default = [] ) The list to sort the collection
• options : ( Object optional ) Configuration
  • options.key : ( String optional: default = id ) The unique key to get a element inside the collection.
  • options.prepend : ( Boolean optional: default = false ) Prepend the rest instead of appending the undefined sort id's to the end

NOTE!: If you are using a non unique key, only the first found element will sorted. All other will be appended/prepended.

Testing

The tests are based on the mocha.js framework with should.js as assertaion lib. To start the test just call

    npm test

or

    grunt test

If you want to be more precice use the mocha cli

    mocha -R nyan -t 1337 test/main.js

Docker-Tests

If you want to test your module against multiple node versions you can use the docker tests.

Preparation

    # make sure you installed all dependencies 
    npm install
    # build the files 
    grunt build

Run

To run the tests through the defined versions run the following command:

    dockertests/run.sh

Release History

Version	Date	Description
0.0.2	2016-5-23	Fixed min. required node version
0.0.1	2016-5-20	Initial version

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Copyright © 2016 M. Peter, http://www.tcs.de

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