Sort JSON

Simple JSON Object and Array sort.

Features

• Sort JSON with comments.
• Sort Ascending
• Sort Descending
• Sort Randomize
• Sort By Value
• Sort By Key
• Sort By Value Length
• Sort By Key Length
• Sort By Value Type
• Sort By Custom Comparison.
• Sort Object
• Sort List items
• Sort Collections
• Sort order override
• Also supports Quick Fix and Fix All code action

Custom Sort

• Right click on a file and select Do Custom Sort command from Sort JSON.
• A quick pick items shows up where we can provide our own custom logic to sort the data.
• We can also save our custom comparisons in settings using sort-json.settings.customComparisons vscode settings which will shows up in the quick pick items.
• Please use conditional operators to sort with multiple conditions.

Sort Array

• predefined variables

  • item1, key1, val1, value1, x is equal to a.
  • item2, key2, val2, value2, y is equal to b.
  • _, lodash, dash - Lodash is exposed.

• Checks

  • isArray, isList will be true in array sort order
  • isObject will be false in array sort order
  • isAllNumber - returns true if all the items in a list are numbers
  • isAllString - returns true if all the items in a list are string
  • isAllList - returns true if all the items in a list are list
  • isAllObject, isCollection - returns true if all the items in a list are objects

• examples:

  // sort ascending
  [ 9,2,6,5,4,1,3,0,7 ]
  // comparison code = a - b or item1 - item2 or x - y etc...
  // sort to  [ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 ]
  
  // sort by item length
  [ "Hi", "this", "is", "a", "custom", "comparison", "sort" ]
  // comparison code = item1.length - item2.length
  // sort to  [ "a", "Hi", "is", "this", "sort", "custom", "comparison" ]
  
  // sort by alphabetical case in-sensitive ascending
  [ "Hi", "this", "is", "a", "custom", "comparison", "sort" ]
  // comparison code = _.toLower(a) == _.toLower(b) ? 0 : _.toLower(a) > _.toLower(b) ? 1 : -1
  // sort to  [ "a", "comparison", "custom", "Hi", "is", "sort", "this" ]
  
  // sort collections by id
  [ { "id": 2, "name": "bar" }, { "id": 1, "name": "foo" } ]
  // comparison code = a.id - b.id
  // sort to  [ { "id": 1, "name": "foo" }, { "id": 2, "name": "bar" } ]
  
  // sort collections by name
  [ { "id": 1, "name": "foo" }, { "id": 2, "name": "bar" } ]
  // comparison code = a.name == b.name ? 0 : a.name > b.name ? 1 : -1
  // sort to  [ { "id": 1, "name": "foo" }, { "id": 2, "name": "bar" } ]

Sort Object

• predefined variables

  • key1 - Object first key
  • key2 - Object second key
  • val1, value1 - Object first value
  • val2, value2 - Object second value
  • item1 - { key: key1, val: val1 }
  • item2 - { key: key2, val: val2 }
  • a, x is equal to item1
  • b, y is equal to item2
  • _, lodash, dash - Lodash is exposed.

• Checks

  • isArray, isList will be false in object sort order
  • isObject will be true in object sort order
  • isAllNumber - returns true if all the values in a object are numbers
  • isAllString - returns true if all the values in a object are string
  • isAllList - returns true if all the values in a object are list
  • isAllObject, isCollection - returns true if all the values in a list are objects

• examples:

  // sort by key length
  { "name": "first item", "id": 1, "label": "foo" }
  // comparison code = key1.length - key2.length or item1.key.length - item2.key.length
  // sort to  { "id": 1, "name": "first item", "label": "foo" }
  
  // sort by value length
  { "name": "foo", "id": 1, "label": "first item" }
  // comparison code = isAllString ? val1.length - val2.length : true
  // sort to  { "id": 1, "label": "foo", "name": "first item" }

Sort on save

There's a vscode setting for formatters (settings.json):

  "editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
    "source.fixAll": "explicit" // set to "explicit" to sort json files on save
  }
```

But you can also selectively enable/disable this formatter with (settings.json):

```jsonc
{
    "editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
        "source.fixAll.sort-json": "never" // set to "explicit" to sort json files on save. set to "never" to stop sorting on save
    }
}
```

Or use a hotkey, if you prefer (keybindings.json):

```json
{
    "key": "cmd+shift+a",
    "command": "editor.action.codeAction",
    "args": {
        "kind": "source.fixAll.sort-json"
    }
}
```

Enjoy!