Generic way of sorting JSON array by attribute

Question

I found out how to sort a JSON array at http://www.devcurry.com/2010/05/sorting-json-array.html

Now I want to sort it in a generic way; so that my sorting function k

Answer 1

See this example http://jsfiddle.net/W8Byu/1/

What I have done is stored the sort column Name in a variable and used in Sort function.

 var sortColumnName = "Name";

 function SortByName(x,y) {
      return ((x[sortColumnName]  == y[sortColumnName]) ? 0 : ((x[sortColumnName]>    y[sortColumnName]) ? 1 : -1 ));
    }