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var People = [
{Name: {name: "Name", surname: "Surname"}, Middlename: "JJ"},
{Name: {name: "AAA", surname: "ZZZ"}, Middlename:"Abrams"},
{Name: {name: "Name", surname: "AAA"}, Middlename: "Wars"}
];
People.sort(dynamicMultiSort(['Name','name'], ['Name', '-surname']));
console.log(People);
function dynamicSort(properties) {
var sortOrder = 1;
// determine sort order by checking sign of last element of array
if(properties[properties.length - 1][0] === "-") {
sortOrder = -1;
// Chop off sign
properties[properties.length - 1] = properties[properties.length - 1].substr(1);
}
return function (a,b) {
propertyOfA = recurseObjProp(a, properties);
propertyOfB = recurseObjProp(b, properties);
var result = (propertyOfA < propertyOfB) ? -1 : (propertyOfA > propertyOfB) ? 1 : 0;
return result * sortOrder;
};
}
/**
* Takes an object
* @param {Object} root - Object to be traversed.
* @param {Array} leafs - Array of downwards traversal. To access the value: {parent:{ child: 'value'}} -> ['parent','child']
* @param {Number} index - Must not be set, since it is implicit.
* @return {String|Number} The property, which is to be compared by sort.
*/
function recurseObjProp(root, leafs, index) {
index ? index : index = 0
var upper = root;
// walk down one level
lower = upper[leafs[index]];
// Check if last leaf has been hit by having gone one step too far.
// If so, return result from last step.
if (!lower) {
return upper;
}
// Else: recurse!
index++;
// HINT: Bug was here, for not explicitely returning function
// http://stackoverflow.com/a/17528613/3580261
return recurseObjProp(lower, leafs, index);
}
/**
* Multi-sort your array by a set of properties
* @param {...Array} Arrays to access values in the form of: {parent:{ child: 'value'}} -> ['parent','child']
* @return {Number} Number - number for sort algorithm
*/
function dynamicMultiSort() {
var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments); // slight deviation to base
return function (a, b) {
var i = 0, result = 0, numberOfProperties = args.length;
// REVIEW: slightly verbose; maybe no way around because of `.sort`-'s nature
// Consider: `.forEach()`
while(result === 0 && i < numberOfProperties) {
result = dynamicSort(args[i])(a, b);
i++;
}
return result;
};
}
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