public interface SortBy
Having SortBy at the Filter level is an interesting undertaking of Filter 1.1 support. Why you ask? It is at the Same level as Filter, it is not *used* by Filter itself. The services that make use of Filter, such as WFS are starting to make use of SortBy in the same breath.
Where is SortBy used:
What this means is that the GeoTools Query will make use of this construct. As for sorting the result of an expression (where an expression matches more then one element), we will splice it in to AttributeExpression as an optional parameter. Note function is defined to return a single value (so we don't need to worry there).
Modifier and Type | Field and Description |
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static SortBy |
NATURAL_ORDER
Used to indicate "natural" sorting order, usually according FID (hopefully based on Key
attribtues).
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static SortBy |
REVERSE_ORDER
Indicate the reverse order, usually assoicated with "Fid".
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static SortBy[] |
UNSORTED
Used to indicate lack of a sorting order.
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Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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PropertyName |
getPropertyName()
Indicate property to sort by, specification is limited to PropertyName.
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SortOrder |
getSortOrder()
The the sort order - one of
ASCENDING or DESCENDING . |
static final SortBy[] UNSORTED
This is the default value for used when setting up a Query.
static final SortBy NATURAL_ORDER
This is the order that is most likely to be available in optimzied form, if an Attribute is marked as "key" an optimized ordering should be considered avaialble.
Non optimized orderings are will at the very least require as pass through the data to bring it into memory, you can assume somekind of TreeSet would be used. Where the nodes in the tree would indicate a list of FeatureIds assoicated with the node, in the order encountered.
This is a "NullObject".
static final SortBy REVERSE_ORDER
This is a "NullObject".
PropertyName getPropertyName()
Not sure if this is allowed to be a xPath expression?
SortOrder getSortOrder()
ASCENDING
or DESCENDING
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