Reverse sort order with Backbone.js

Question

With Backbone.js I\'ve got a collection set up with a comparator function. It\'s nicely sorting the models, but I\'d like to reverse the order.

How can I sort the m

Answer 1

I had a slightly different requirement, in that I am displaying my models in a table, and I wanted to be able to sort them by any collumn (model property) and either ascending or descending.

It has taken a fair amount of mucking around to get all the cases working (where values can be strings, empty strings, dates, numbers. However I think this is pretty close.

    inverseString: function(str)
    {
        return str.split("").map(function (letter) { return String.fromCharCode(-(letter.charCodeAt(0))); }).join("");
    }
    getComparisonValue: function (val, desc)
    {
        var v = 0;
        // Is a string
        if (typeof val === "string")
        {
            // Is an empty string, upgrade to a space to avoid strange ordering
            if(val.length === 0)
            {
                val = " ";
                return desc ? this.inverseString(val) : val;
            }                

            // Is a (string) representing a number
            v = Number(val);
            if (!isNaN(v))
            {
                return desc ? -1 * v : v;
            }
            // Is a (string) representing a date
            v = Date.parse(val);
            if (!isNaN(v))
            {
                return desc ? -1 * v : v;
            }
            // Is just a string
            return desc ? this.inverseString(val) : val;
        }
        // Not a string
        else
        {
            return desc ? -1 * val : val;
        }
    },

use:

    comparator: function (item)
    {
        // Store the collumn to 'sortby' in my global model
        var property = app.collections.global.get("sortby");

        // Store the direction of the sorting also in the global model
        var desc = app.collections.global.get("direction") === "DESC";

        // perform a comparison based on property & direction
        return this.getComparisonValue(item.get(property), desc);
    },