[FREEMARKER-62] ?sort_by to accept Iterable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.26-incubating
• Component/s: engine
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ondra Žižka
• Created: 11/Jul/17 14:28
• Updated: 23/Sep/17 07:43

Description

Currently, ?sort_by() only accepts a List.
It's not complicated to create an iteratorToList() FreemarkerMethod, though.

So this is a suggestion to make ?sort_by accept an Iterable, and if it detects it was called for Iterable and not a List, it would create the sorted list. It could use heapsort maybe.