Sorting JSON by values

Question

I have a very simple JSON object like the following:

{
   \"people\":[
      {
         \"f_name\":\"john\",
         \"l_name\":\"doe\",
         \"sequence         


        

Answer 1

jQuery isn't particularly helpful for sorting, but here's an elegant and efficient solution. Just write a plain JS function that takes the property name and the order (ascending or descending) and calls the native sort() method with a simple comparison function:

var people = [
    {
        "f_name": "john",
        "l_name": "doe",
        "sequence": "0",
        "title" : "president",
        "url" : "google.com",
        "color" : "333333",
    }
    // etc
];

function sortResults(prop, asc) {
    people.sort(function(a, b) {
        if (asc) {
            return (a[prop] > b[prop]) ? 1 : ((a[prop] < b[prop]) ? -1 : 0);
        } else {
            return (b[prop] > a[prop]) ? 1 : ((b[prop] < a[prop]) ? -1 : 0);
        }
    });
    renderResults();
}

Then:

sortResults('l_name', true);

Play with a working example here.