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Gursimrat's avatar
Gursimrat
Leader
12 years ago

Float Thread sorting and order

I am using the fllowing REST Api to fetch the floating threads, i need them to be sorted and like the newest thread created to be on top.    /restapi/vc/categories/id/CAT-ID/subscriptions/global/fl...
  • AdamN's avatar
    AdamN
    12 years ago

    If I understand correctly, you want to get a list of floated threads sorted by the date of the root post. In your sample code, it looks like you're sorting messages within a thread, rather than sorting the list of threads.

     

    Here's a quick example of sorting the list of floated threads (community-wide) by the date of the root post (most recent first):

    <#assign floated_threads = rest("/subscriptions/global/float/thread").subscriptions />
<#list floated_threads.subscription?sort_by(["target","messages","topic","post_time"])?reverse as subscription>
${subscription.target.messages.topic.id} - ${subscription.target.messages.topic.post_time} <br>
</#list>

     So basically I get the list of floated threads across the entire community, iterate through the list sorted in reverse order by post_time, and then output the id and date of the root post.

     

    I want to point out that in this case the sort_by is taking a sequence of 4 values which correspond to the names of the nested subvariables. For example, the post_time of the root post as I'm looping through the subscriptions is accessible via "subscription.target.messages.topic.id", so my parameter for "sort_by" is the sequence "["target","messages","topic","post_time"]"

     

    I hope this helps!

AdamN's avatar
AdamN
Khoros Oracle

Hi Gursimrat,

 

I don't believe that particular REST API call supports any parameters for sorting; however, you should be able to sort the threads after the fact using the Freemarker "sort_by" built-in:

http://freemarker.org/docs/ref_builtins_sequence.html#ref_builtin_sort_by

 

Here's an example of how that works blogs:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/developers-discussion/Sorting-blogs-by-alphabetical-order/m-p/38272#M647

 

The approach should be similar for threads.

 

I hope this helps!

Gursimrat's avatar
Gursimrat
Leader
12 years ago

It is not working. I need to sort it based on "post_time" 

 

My FTL Code

 

<#assign floating_threads = rest("categories/id/10023/subscriptions/global/float/thread").subscriptions/>

<#list floating_threads.subscription as fth>
<#list fth.target.messages.linear.message?sort_by("post_time") as t> 
<li>
<a href="${t.@view_href}">${t.subject}</a>
</li>
</#list>
</#list>

It returns the following xml 

 

<subscription type="subscription" href="/subscriptions/global/id/411">
<id type="int">411</id>
<target type="thread" href="/threads/id/5081">
<id type="int">5081</id>
<messages>
<topic type="message" href="/messages/id/5081">
<id type="int">5081</id>
<read_only type="boolean">false</read_only>
<thread type="thread" href="/threads/id/5081"/>
<last_edit_author type="user" href="/users/id/25">
<login type="string">The_Tackler</login>
</last_edit_author>
<parent type="message" null="true"/>
<teaser type="string"/>
<views>
<count type="int">4</count>
</views>
<root type="message" href="/messages/id/5081"/>
<board_id type="int">10</board_id>
<post_time type="date_time">2013-10-10T12:34:10+00:00</post_time>
<last_edit_time type="date_time">2013-10-10T12:34:10+00:00</last_edit_time>
<subject type="string">Gaming and consoles support</subject>
<deleted type="boolean">false</deleted>
<author type="user" href="/users/id/25">
<login type="string">The_Tackler</login>
</author>
<message_rating type="float">0.0</message_rating>
<kudos>
<count type="int">0</count>
</kudos>
<board type="board" href="/boards/id/22643"/>
<labels/>
</topic>
<count type="int">1</count>
<linear>
<message type="message" href="/messages/id/5081">
<id type="int">5081</id>
<read_only type="boolean">false</read_only>
<thread type="thread" href="/threads/id/5081"/>
<last_edit_author type="user" href="/users/id/25">
<login type="string">The_Tackler</login>
</last_edit_author>
<parent type="message" null="true"/>
<teaser type="string"/>
<views>
<count type="int">4</count>
</views>
<root type="message" href="/messages/id/5081"/>
<board_id type="int">10</board_id>
<post_time type="date_time">2013-10-10T12:34:10+00:00</post_time>
<last_edit_time type="date_time">2013-10-10T12:34:10+00:00</last_edit_time>
<subject type="string">Testing the float support</subject>
<deleted type="boolean">false</deleted>
<author type="user" href="/users/id/25">
<login type="string">The_Tackler</login>
</author>
<message_rating type="float">0.0</message_rating>
<kudos>
<count type="int">0</count>
</kudos>
<board type="board" href="/boards/id/22643"/>
<labels/>
</message>
</linear>
<read>
<count type="int">1</count>
</read>
</messages>
<solutions/>
<title type="string" null="true"/>
<board type="board" href="/boards/id/22643"/>
<interaction_style type="string">board</interaction_style>
</target>
<target_type type="subscription_target_type">thread</target_type>
<subscription_type type="subscription_type">float</subscription_type>
<user type="user" null="true"/>
</subscription>

 

Can you let me know where the problem is?

  • AdamN's avatar
    AdamN
    Khoros Oracle
    12 years ago

    If I understand correctly, you want to get a list of floated threads sorted by the date of the root post. In your sample code, it looks like you're sorting messages within a thread, rather than sorting the list of threads.

     

    Here's a quick example of sorting the list of floated threads (community-wide) by the date of the root post (most recent first):

    <#assign floated_threads = rest("/subscriptions/global/float/thread").subscriptions />
<#list floated_threads.subscription?sort_by(["target","messages","topic","post_time"])?reverse as subscription>
${subscription.target.messages.topic.id} - ${subscription.target.messages.topic.post_time} <br>
</#list>

     So basically I get the list of floated threads across the entire community, iterate through the list sorted in reverse order by post_time, and then output the id and date of the root post.

     

    I want to point out that in this case the sort_by is taking a sequence of 4 values which correspond to the names of the nested subvariables. For example, the post_time of the root post as I'm looping through the subscriptions is accessible via "subscription.target.messages.topic.id", so my parameter for "sort_by" is the sequence "["target","messages","topic","post_time"]"

     

    I hope this helps!

    • Gursimrat's avatar
      Gursimrat
      Leader
      12 years ago

      Thanks AdamN, it worked like expected.