Hotchocolate: Preserve sort argument order when using variables?

[andrewlutgen]

In cases where multiple order_by fields are specified, it seems that there is not a way to specify or guarantee order when provided as a query variable.

For example, the following query maintains the order of name first, then id.

query {
  companies (
    order_by: {
      name: ASC
      id: ASC
    }
  ) {
    ...company
  }
}

However, if the order_by provided as a query variable, the order cannot be preserved and would end executing as id first, then name.

query {
  companies($orderBy: CompanySort) (
    order_by: $orderBy
  ) {
    ...company
  }
}

Is there any way to maintain the order_by order using the variable approach?

[michaelstaib]

Oh, you are right :) This will actually be fixed with version 11. The issue here is that with V10 the variables are kept in a dictionary structure. The default dictionary has no order since it is basically a hashtable.

The literals on the other hands are kept as object literals which have a field order.

With the next version we have unified this, so it should be fixed then.

[michaelstaib]

btw, thank you for filing this issue :) 👍