Sorting with a hierarchical dataSource

[Bryand]

I wanted to ask if it was possible to cause a widget to sort by nested objects' properties. For example, if I had  a data source like the one below, could I sort the data source by parent.name? 

var data = [
    { student: { name: "Peter" }, 
      parent: { name: "Sally"} 
    },
    { student: { name: "Steven" }, 
      parent: { name: "Logan"} 
    },
    { student: { name: "Michael" }, 
      parent: { name: "Liz"} 
    }
];

The hierarchical data source api doesnt have anything on sorting, and the normal datasource api shows how to sort, but not for hierarchical structures. 

Thanks for help!

[Alexander Popov]

Hi Bryand,

Sorting by the nested object's properties is supported using the following notation: 

widget.dataSource.sort({field: "student.name", dir: "asc"})

On a side note I would recommend against using fields named "parent" as the observable objects have a method using the same name.

Regards,
Alexander Popov
Telerik