order them by the the length of the name of the number descending, and then
alphabetically by the cardinal name of the number ascending:
1,2,3
one, two, three
two, one three
2,1,3
len.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Chris Newman <
chris.new...@overturenetworks.com> wrote:
> I have a search
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 06:21:54PM +, Chris Newman wrote:
>
> However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do the same thing
> using DBIx::Class. My test code looks like this:
> $schema->resultset ('MyTable')->search (id => $ids, {
> order_by => \'FIND_IN_SET (id, '2, 1, 3')
> });
reply.
-Original Message-
From: Peter Rabbitson [mailto:rabbit+d...@rabbit.us]
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:09 PM
To: DBIx::Class user and developer list
Subject: Re: [Dbix-class] Returning search results in a specific order
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 06:21:54PM +, Chris Newman
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 08:36:50PM +, Chris Newman wrote:
> From: Peter Rabbitson [mailto:rabbit+d...@rabbit.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:09 PM
>>
>> The thing above isn't valid perl, left alone valid search() syntax.
>>
>> Please show *actual* code run and *actual* SQL produced.
>
>
W
e generate a special ORDER BY for such a scenario (that should work for
most RDBMs):
ORDER BY
id = 2 ASC,
id = 1 ASC,
id = 3 ASC
2013/5/1 Peter Rabbitson
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 08:36:50PM +, Chris Newman wrote:
>
> > From: Peter Rabbitson [mailto:rabbit+d...@rabbit.us]
> > Sent:
On 30 April 2013 19:21, Chris Newman wrote:
> I have a search like this:
>
> my $ids = [2, 1, 3];
>
> $schema->resultset (‘MyTable’)->search (id => $ids);
>
>
>
> MySQL processes rows in the order they are found in the table so I
> essentially get back 1, 2, 3. $ids is really a user-specified li
