fileFolderService list sort natural numbers in name

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leroux

Hi

My users are used to create folders with numbers in name in order to get a natural sort.
For ex :

|- 1 FOLDER1
|- 2 FOLDER2
|- 3 FOLDER3
|- 4 FOLDER4
|- 5 FOLDER5
|- 6 FOLDER6
|- 7 FOLDER7
|- 8 FOLDER8
|- 9 FOLDER9
|- 10 FOLDER10
|- 11 FOLDER11
|- 12 FOLDER12
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They expects folders are displayed in this order but using fileFolderService.list like this

List<Pair<QName, Boolean>> sortProps = new ArrayList() {
         {
            add(new Pair<>(
                  GetChildrenCannedQuery.SORT_QNAME_NODE_IS_FOLDER, false));
            add(new Pair<>(ContentModel.PROP_NAME, true));
         }
      };

      PagingResults<FileInfo> results = fileFolderService.list(parent,
            !onlyFolders, true, null, sortProps, new PagingRequest(
                  skipCount, maxItems));
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they get this result :

|- 1 FOLDER1
|- 10 FOLDER10
|- 11 FOLDER11
|- 12 FOLDER12
|- 2 FOLDER2
|- 3 FOLDER3
|- 4 FOLDER4
|- 5 FOLDER5
|- 6 FOLDER6
|- 7 FOLDER7
|- 8 FOLDER8
|- 9 FOLDER9
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Is it possible to give fileFolderService.list any option to sort correctly numbers ?

Thanks

afaust

Hello,

not to my knowledge. As long as users don't use 01, 02 … 10 for the leading numbers, this won't ever work. This is actually how our customers with similar "requirement" do it (like they also did in previous systems).

Regards
Axel