[CAUSEWAY-3721] Excel download doesn't order the columns

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-RC4
• Component/s: Ext Wicket ExcelDownload
• Environment: Osx Sonoma 14.4.1 with Google Chrome Version 123.0.6312.87 (Official Build) (arm64)
• Assignee: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Reporter: Patrick Deenen
• Created: 11/Apr/24 09:28
• Updated: 11/Apr/24 09:28

Description

When downloading the ordering of columns is not consistent and as a result different from V1.

In Causeway method _ExcelConverter.appendSheet the propertylist is not sorted (based on sequence for example, lines 163-166), hence the result column ordering is not consistent.