how to sort a featureset?

evtguy

Has anyone found or written a function to take a featureSet and sort it based on a specified attribute? The only way I can think of right now would be to:

1. create a dojo dGrid via code
2. provide the featureSet as it's store
3. sort the dGrid based on the appropriate column
4. create a new featureSet based on the sorted store

Thanks-
Steve

ReneRubalcava

You really want to sort on the featureSet.features array.
You can pass a function to the sort method to determine your sort.
I use this, but there's probably a better way to do this, since I need a text sort, not numbers or dates.

var _sort = function(field) {       return function(a, b) {         var x, y;         x = a.attributes[field].toLowerCase();         y = b.attributes[field].toLowerCase();          return (x < y) ? -1 : 1;       }; };  _featureSet.features.sort(_sort('FIELD_NAME'));

edit, had wrong file in clipboard