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Sort area children by leftRightIndex #296

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"Area" graphql objects have a children field containing other areas or climbs. Currently these are unsorted -- we leave the frontend to sort them. But the frontend tends to sort them the same way based on their leftRightIndex so why not just return that as a default order returned by the backend? This way frontends won't have to do any sorting.

In response to issue: #294 and first discussed in this PR: OpenBeta/open-tacos#696 (comment)

@@ -21,3 +23,17 @@ export function exhaustiveCheck (_value: never): never {

export const geojsonPointToLongitude = (point: Point): number => point.coordinates[0]
export const geojsonPointToLatitude = (point: Point): number => point.coordinates[1]

export function compareAreaLeftRightIndex (a: AreaType, b: AreaType): number {
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I considered merging these two, but then I'd need to be able to narrow the type of a and b. And that's not very easy since these are custom types, not just strings or numbers. And so it gets a bit messy. I figure just splitting them out is a bit repetitive but a lot more readable.

@zichongkao zichongkao force-pushed the kao-leftrightsort branch 2 times, most recently from 3fbd76e to 6320b57 Compare May 21, 2023 07:03
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ const resolvers = {

children: async (parent: AreaType, _, { dataSources: { areas } }: Context) => {
if (parent.children.length > 0) {
return await areas.findManyByIds(parent.children)
return (await areas.findManyByIds(parent.children)).sort(compareAreaLeftRightIndex)
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What do you think if we let Mongo handle the sorting here and in findManyClimbsByUuids(). This way we don't have to write comparators.
Something like:

// inside AreaDataSource
 ...
 return await this.areaModel.find().
   where('metadata.leftRightIndex').
   in(parent.children).
   sort({ 'metadata.leftRightIndex': 1 }).lean()

edit: add lean()

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zichongkao commented May 21, 2023 via email

},
{
$set: {
climbs: { $sortArray: { input: '$climbs', sortBy: { 'metadata.left_right_index': 1 } } },
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$sortArray requires Mongo 5.2 and up. Otherwise we need something like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15388127/mongodb-sort-inner-array

{
$set: {
climbs: { $sortArray: { input: '$climbs', sortBy: { 'metadata.left_right_index': 1 } } },
children: { $sortArray: { input: '$children', sortBy: { 'metadata.leftRightIndex': 1 } } }
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can you confirm children[] contains actual area objects? I think it only contains a list of area _id's. When we ask for an area.children[] in GQL, we're making another DB query here:
https://github.com/OpenBeta/openbeta-graphql/blob/develop/src/graphql/resolvers.ts#L203

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Oh yeah you're right! I've not tested this far because it throws a "No such operation as $sortArray" error.

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What if we did a $lookup for children above this $set so that we have the full object?

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What if we did a $lookup for children above this $set so that we have the full object?

I thought the query would get too wildly complicated for a small performance gain, whereas the GQL field resolution way in my comment above is more elegant and simpler (but requires an additional query).

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vnugent commented May 24, 2023

I'd be content with whatever solution you come with that doesn't require a DB upgrade, or we can leave this PR open until we do the upgrade.

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Agree that we can hold this back until we have time to upgrade Mongo to v6 as tracked here: #300

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