lodash orderby with null and real values not ordering correctly

I have an Angular 2 typescript application that is using lodash for various things.

I have an array of objects that I am ordering using a property in the object...

_.orderBy(this.myArray, ['propertyName'], ['desc']);

This works well however my problem is that sometimes 'propertyName' can have a null value. These are ordered as the first item in a descending list, the highest real values then follow.

I want to make these null values appear last in the descending ordering.

I understand why the nulls come first.

Does anyone know how to approach this?

In _.orderBy() iteratees use a method instead of a string, check the value, and if it's null return an empty string.

const myArray = [{ propertyName: 'cats' }, { propertyName: null }, { propertyName: 'dogs' }, { propertyName: 'rats' }, { propertyName: null }];

const result = _.orderBy(myArray, ({ propertyName }) => propertyName || '', ['desc']);

console.log(result);

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The check can be simple, like the one I've used, that converts all falsy values to an empty string:

propertyName || ''

If you need a stricter check, you can use the ternary operator, and handle just null values:

propertyName === null ? '' : propertyName

The code I needed looks like this...

_.orderBy(this.myArray, [( o ) => { return o.myProperty || ''}], ['desc']);

Just for future reference to others you can do this to sort ascending with falsey values at the end.

items =>
  orderBy(
    items,
    [
      i => !!i.attributeToCheck,
      i => {
        return i.attributeToCheck ? i.attributeToCheck.toLowerCase() : ''
      }
    ],
    ['desc', 'asc']
  )

mine looks like this. PropName and sort are both variables in my solution

return _.orderBy( myarray, [
  ( data ) => {
    if ( data[propName] === null ) {
        data[propName] = "";
    }
    return data[propName].toLowerCase();
    }
 ], [sort] );

I wanted tolowercase because otherwise the sorting is not correct if different casings

This will put bad values at the bottom, and it differentiates between numbers and strings.

const items = [] // some list

const goodValues = isAscending => ({ value }) => {
    if (typeof value !== 'string' && isNaN(value)) {
        return isAscending ? Infinity : -Infinity
    }

    return value || ''
}

const sortedItems = orderBy(
    items,
    [goodValues(isAscending), 'value'],
    [isAscending ? 'asc' : 'desc']
)

This worked for me

orders = [{id : "1", name : "test"}, {id : "1"}];
sortBy = ["id", "name"];
orderby(
            orders,
            sortBy.map(s => {
                return (r: any) => {
                    return r[s] ? r[s] : "";
                };
            })),
        );

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41138820/lodash-orderby-with-null-and-real-values-not-ordering-correctly

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