Re: [pgAdmin4][RM#3055] Allow user to sort the data in View data mode

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From: Murtuza Zabuawala <[email protected]>
To: Joao De Almeida Pereira <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Eckhardt <[email protected]>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [pgAdmin4][RM#3055] Allow user to sort the data in View data mode
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 09:13:06 +0530
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Hi Joao,


On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:20 PM, Joao De Almeida Pereira <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Murtuza,
> I forgot to mention this in my review........
> Do you think we can start using only ES6 instead of keep using requirejs
> syntax on new things that we are building?
> How much effort do you think it will be?
>
Yes, we can.
Let me try to change the code to use ES6 and I'll send patch.


>
> Like this patch, as an example, do you think it could have been
> implemented without using requirejs?
>

> Thanks
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:26 AM Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, applied.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Murtuza Zabuawala <murtuza.zabuawala@
>> enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dave,
>>>
>>> Please find rebased patch.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Murtuza Zabuawala
>>> EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>>> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can you rebase this please?
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 8:19 AM, Murtuza Zabuawala <murtuza.zabuawala@
>>>> enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Dave,
>>>>>
>>>>> Please find updated patch with following changes,
>>>>> - Combined Filter and Data sorting together same as pgAdmin3.
>>>>> - Extracted model into separate file
>>>>> - Change the colour of filter button from orange to blue.
>>>>> - Updated docs and screenshot.
>>>>>
>>>>> @Joao,
>>>>> Could you please provide any reference for learning more about jasmine
>>>>> test framework?
>>>>> 
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Murtuza Zabuawala
>>>>> EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>>>>> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 6:07 AM, Robert Eckhardt <[email protected]
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Murtuza Zabuawala <
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 7:06 PM, Robert Eckhardt <
>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 6:25 AM, Murtuza Zabuawala <
>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Dave Page <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 9:26 PM, Robert Eckhardt <
>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Joao De Almeida Pereira <
>>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Hackers,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> @Murtuza: The patch codewise looks good. Nice to see that we
>>>>>>>>>>>> are using axios instead of jquery ajax calls and that there is some
>>>>>>>>>>>> coverage for the change.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Nevertheless the Javascript testing looks a bit slim and could
>>>>>>>>>>>> be improved. Also the DataSorting class could have some other member
>>>>>>>>>>>> functions like the model validation could be extracted out so that it is
>>>>>>>>>>>> easily tested.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> @Hackers: This was how we tried to test this feature:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 1 - Started pgAdmin
>>>>>>>>>>>> 2 - Opened the query tool for a specific server
>>>>>>>>>>>> 3 - Executed a SQL statment
>>>>>>>>>>>> 4 - Pressed the column header to try to order, nothing happened
>>>>>>>>>>>> 5 - Right clicked the column header to see if it was there the
>>>>>>>>>>>> option, nothing
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> This is the behavior that we were expecting, not to have to
>>>>>>>>>>>> open Data View and then press the icon that is not even near the grid in
>>>>>>>>>>>> order to sort the column. Is this really the way we want people to use the
>>>>>>>>>>>> grid in pgAdmin? Should it be more intuitive?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Have we considered making the grid behave more like excel or
>>>>>>>>>>> other grids? I think that having the ascending and descending inside the
>>>>>>>>>>> column header, we could similarly provide filtering. Something that would
>>>>>>>>>>> give users a more intuitive place to look.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Doing the sorting via header clicks is convenient but very
>>>>>>>>>> restrictive. How do you specify multiple columns to sort by for example?
>>>>>>>>>> The current design allows you to select columns and the sort order as you
>>>>>>>>>> see fit.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Honestly I'm not sold on my idea, I was just proposing an
>>>>>>>> alternative in an effort to start a discussion about the user experience.
>>>>>>>> Ideally what I'd like to see, maybe this happened, is some user research.
>>>>>>>> When we initial worked on refactoring the results grid we made a bunch of
>>>>>>>> changes. One of the things we intended to do was to follow up to see how
>>>>>>>> people were using the grid now so that we could better understand how it
>>>>>>>> was now being used in order to design and implement features just like
>>>>>>>> this. Clearly we haven't gotten there yet.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Another reason we can't use that because w
>>>>>>>>> e have already occupied that behaviour for selecting entire column
>>>>>>>>>  when user clicks on header.
>>>>>>>>> As Dave suggested, I will be merging it with filter dialog meaning
>>>>>>>>> it will be accessible via direct button on toolbar & keyboard shortcut.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How are users currently interacting with that filter dialog?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> By clicking on the toolbar button as well as keyboard shortcut.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry I wasn't clear. My question was more along the lines of, do we
>>>>>> know if people are using the filter functionality?  What kind of
>>>>>> filters are people using?  What do they like about it? What do they wish
>>>>>> they could do above and beyond sorting, etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I have not done any data gathering from users so I can't comment on
>>>>> your queries.
>>>>>  but a
>>>>> s far as I understood from the feature requests that most of the
>>>>> users expect to have functionality which will allow then to sort columns as
>>>>> it was in pgAdmin3.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Rob
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What I'm suggesting is that we understand how users want to
>>>>>>>> interact with their results, be those the results of a query or a table
>>>>>>>> view, then we can design something that meets those needs. I agree that
>>>>>>>> changing the column selection behavior isn't desirable, however, I also
>>>>>>>> feel like providing the best user experience is better than holding onto a
>>>>>>>> particular feature implementation.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -- Rob
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> Dave Page
>>>>>>>>>> Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
>>>>>>>>>> Twitter: @pgsnake
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>>>>>>>>>> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dave Page
>>>> Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
>>>> Twitter: @pgsnake
>>>>
>>>> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>>>> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dave Page
>> Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
>> Twitter: @pgsnake
>>
>> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>>
>


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