[Rt-devel] Sorting an RT collection

[Stephen Turner]

Hello,

I have a need to sort a collection (of tickets) based on some 
criterion that is not a simple table attribute/column. I'm thinking I 
can populate a Tickets object in the normal way and then call a new 
method to sort the internal array that holds the retrieved database rows.

Where I'm getting confused is: SearchBuilder maintains rows in an 
array $self->{'items'}, but Tickets_Overlay seems to maintain a 
second array $self->{'items_array'} (in the ItemsArrayRef method).

My questions are:

- Why two arrays?
- Can my goal be achieved as simply as I think (by sorting the 
appropriate arrays) or is there more to it?
- Is this (sorting by not-a-table-column) done anywhere currently within RT?

Thanks,
Steve


Stephen Turner
Senior Programmer/Analyst - Client Support Services
MIT Information Services and Technology (IS&T)