[TW5] Json Mangler Update 0.3.0

[Joshua Fontany]

Hi all. I have updated my plugin to impliment "alphanumeric" tokenized sorting of the JSON keys whenever a refresh event happens.

The Alphanum Algorithm is discussed at http://www.DaveKoelle.com and there is a reference tiddler in my plugin from his site.

As an example, previously these keys would sort in this order:

"colors[0].color": "black",
"colors[1].color": "white",
"colors[10].color": "octarine",
"colors[2].color": "red",
"colors[3].color": "blue"

And now they sort in this order:

"colors[0].color": "black",
"colors[1].color": "white",
"colors[2].color": "red",
"colors[3].color": "blue",
"colors[10].color": "octarine"

Still thinking about other functionality to add...

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As an aside, the base sorting Filter Operators also choke when it comes to numbers embedded in strings ("path" style strings with numerals).

Would this be worth implementing in a new "alphanum[] / alphanumcs[]" pair of Filter Operators?

For example, right now both the sort[] and nsort[] operators return the same ("incorrect" to humans) result from this $list of tiddler titles:

Test/0/test0
Test/0/test1
Test/0/test10
Test/0/test2
Test/1/test0
Test/1/test1
Test/1/test10
Test/1/test2
Test/10/test1
Test/2/test1

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Best,
Joshua Fontany

[Joshua Fontany]

Oops, forgot the link.

https://joshuafontany.github.io/TW5-JsonManglerPlugin/

[Ste Wilson]

I have no idea what this means but bonus points for the disc world reference :)

[Jed Carty]

Did you make a filter version of the alphanumeric sort? People have been asking for one that works for a while and I couldn't find a good way to create one last time I tired. I need to look closer at the chunkify part of the code but it looks like it takes care of the part that I couldn't figure out before.

So yes, I think that at a minimum a plugin to add the filters so we can test them out would be a good idea.