Missing API: ListGridField.setSortField(String sortField)

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

I think there might be use for the API ListGridField.setSortField(String sortField) in ListGridField (http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwte...GridField.html) in SmartGWT.
See this use-case:

• Editable (important) ListGrid

• table task (id, name, priority_id)

• table priority (id, name, position) with values
  • {34; Low; 1}
  • {3; Medium; 2}
  • {100; High; 3}

• tasktable is shown in ListGrid, on click on the priority-columnheader it should be sorted by priority-position.

So far I can't do this. In my task.ds.xml I'd have:

<field name="priority_id" displayField="priority_name" />
<field name="priority_name" nativeName="name" tableName="priority" />

...
[table-clause with join, or add includeFrom/foreignKey above]
...

Now, with the already available API setSortByDisplayField(boolean) I can configure whether to sort by priority_id or priority_name. Sorting via priority_position or any other field is not possible.
Using setSortNormalizer is no option in my opinion as it would lead to inconsistent behaviour with regards to SQL-paging.
So I think a method setSortField(String sortField) might be very useful, as this would be used locally as well as with SQL-paging.

What do you think? Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Blama

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

I think it would be great if this (as well as the already available setSortByDisplayField(boolean)) could be defined in the ds.xml-field (http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwte...urceField.html) as well.

Best regards,
Blama