Calling sort on slickgrid

Question

In the slickgrid I\'m able to set the sort column and it\'s sort direction using the grid.SetSortColumn(colName,true/false). This only sets the sorting glyph but do

Answer 1

A more clean solution is not to rely on the arguments to onSort but call getSortColumns instead:

  function gridSorter() {
     var scol=grid.getSortColumns();
     if (scol.length===0) return;
     var scolId=scol[0].columnId, asc=scol[0].sortAsc;
     data.sort(function(a, b) {
        var result = a[scolId] > b[scolId] ? 1 : a[scolId] < b[scolId] ? -1 : 0;
        return asc ? result : -result;
     });
     grid.invalidate();
  }

Then do:

  grid.onSort.subscribe(gridSorter);

This will allow to reestablish sorting anytime you want (from example after reloading the data with ajax) simply by calling gridSorter()