[Zope] Dynamic sorting key?
Dieter Maurer
dieter@handshake.de
Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:27:34 +0200 (CEST)
Zoper writes:
> ..., however I would like to sort on different key by different paramenter...
>
> something like "... sort=REQUEST['sort_by'] ..." (doesn't work)
> where sort_by from URL parameter maybe "id", "title", "getSize" or "bobobase_modification_time", etc...
This is a known weakness.
AFAIK, there is currently no way to treat values for "sort" as
expressions.
You may try,
... sort="REQUEST['sort_by']" ...
(note the "..."!), but it will probably not work.
It, obviously, is useful, but I believe nobody has implemented
it yet.
Dieter