Sorting dates

[k1assen]

This is with Smartgwtpro 2.3
Firefox 3.6.8 and Chrome 5.0.375.127

I am feeding a listgrid with a date object, and then telling the listgrid to sort by date. It successfully sorts by date, but always sorts it ascending, even though the little arrow indicates descending order.

http://grab.by/63CO

If you click the header and resort descending it sorts the correct way. I have also tried to just call a sort which also didn't work.

Am I making a mistake somewhere, or is there a bug?

Code

        notificationGrid = new ListGrid();
        notificationGrid.setAutoFetchData(false);
        notificationDS = DataSource.get("notification");
        notificationGrid.setDataSource(notificationDS);
        notificationGrid.setSortField("modification_date");
        notificationGrid.setSortDirection(SortDirection.DESCENDING);
        notificationGrid.fetchData();

The request

{
    "actionURL":"http://127.0.0.1:8888/program/sc/IDACall", 
    "showPrompt":true, 
    "prompt":"Finding Records that match your criteria...", 
    "transport":"xmlHttpRequest", 
    "promptStyle":"dialog", 
    "bypassCache":true, 
    "data":{
        "criteria":{
        }, 
        "operationConfig":{
            "dataSource":"notification", 
            "repo":null, 
            "operationType":"fetch", 
            "textMatchStyle":"exact"
        }, 
        "startRow":0, 
        "endRow":75, 
        "sortBy":[
            "modification_date"
        ], 
        "componentId":"isc_ListGrid_0", 
        "appID":"builtinApplication", 
        "operation":"notification_fetch", 
        "oldValues":{
        }
    }
}

Response

[
    {
        endRow:4, 
        totalRows:4, 
        isDSResponse:true, 
        invalidateCache:false, 
        status:0, 
        startRow:0, 
        data:[
            {
                modification_date:new Date(1270443600000), 
                description:"Zasdf", 
                notification_id:7
            }, 
            {
                modification_date:new Date(1273035600000), 
                description:"Appointment confirmed", 
                notification_id:4
            }, 
            {
                modification_date:new Date(1273035600000), 
                description:"Appointment confirmed", 
                notification_id:8
            }, 
            {
                modification_date:new Date(1275714000000), 
                description:"Appointment confirmed with John smith", 
                notification_id:6
            }
        ]
    }
]

the DS file

<DataSource ID="notification" serverType="sql" tableName="notification">
	<fields>
		<field name="notification_id" type="sequence" hidden="true"	sequenceName="notification_notification_id_seq" primaryKey="true" />
                <field name="modification_date" title="Date" type="date" />
		<field name="description" type="text" />
    </fields>
</DataSource>

[k1assen]

I also tried this using the description field, which is just text, and it had the exact same behavior as the date field.

[Isomorphic]

We tried this out and it is a bug. Thanks for the clear test case.
We've added a fix to our mainline codebase which should resolve this for you. Give it a try with the next nightly build and let us know if you still see the problem

Regards
Isomorphic Software