[JSPWIKI-526] Allow administrators to select the Comparator used for sorting page lists by name

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.3
• Component/s: Localization
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Greg Kable
• Created: 22/Apr/09 03:54
• Updated: 10/Sep/11 23:06
• Resolved: 12/May/09 17:20

Description

I personally hate the order of pages returned by the standard sorting routines and would rather an order that understood numeric ordering. That is, instead of having the list:

WikiPage1
WikiPage10
WikiPage2

I'd like to get the list:

WikiPage1
WikiPage2
WikiPage10

There are also many other case, especially for localisation, where being able to set the page name order would be useful.

To achieve this, I propose adding a JSPWiki property which specifies the Comparator to be used for page names. Before I do the work and submit a patch, I'd like to know:

• Would this be a welcome feature?
• Is jswpwiki.pageNameComparator an appropriate property name? If not, what do you suggest?