我在Web服务中有一个方法,该方法具有参数,用户可以使用该参数来决定他们如何订购结果.这是一个List(Of String),其中包含要按其排序顺序的字段名称.
我知道我通常可以通过执行以下操作在多个列上进行排序
- Dim test = Bars.OrderBy(Function(x) x.Foo) _
- .ThenBy(Function(x) x.Bar) _
- .ThenBy(Function(x) x.Test)
但是在这种情况下这不起作用,因为我无法链接ThenBy函数,因为我在循环中添加排序顺序.要使用ThenBy,我需要一个IOrderedQueryable集合.这就是我希望它的工作方式
- Dim sortColumns = {"Foo","Bar","Test"}
- Dim query = From b in Bars
- For each column in sortColumns
- Select Case column
- Case "Foo"
- query = query.Orderby(Function(x) x.Foo)
- Case "Bar"
- query = query.Orderby(Function(x) x.Bar)
- Case "Test"
- query = query.Orderby(Function(x) x.Test)
- End Select
- Next
- Dim result = query.Select(Function(x) x.x).ToList()
- Return result
这当然不会起作用,因为OrderBy将取代之前的任何订购.我能想到的唯一解决方案是首先在其他变量上排序列表,这样我就已经有了一个IOrderedQueryable集合,但这看起来似乎是错误的方法.
- Dim bars As New List(Of Bar)
- Dim sortColumns = {"Foo","Test"}
- Dim query = bars.Select(Function(x) New With {.Temp = 1,.x = x}) _
- .OrderBy(Function(x) x.Temp)
- For Each column In sortColumns
- Select Case column
- Case "Foo"
- query = query.ThenBy(Function(x) x.x.Foo)
- Case "Bar"
- query = query.ThenBy(Function(x) x.x.Bar)
- Case "Test"
- query = query.ThenBy(Function(x) x.x.Test)
- End Select
- Next
- Dim result = query.Select(Function(x) x.x).ToList()
- Return result
您可以编写自己的扩展方法OrderByOrThenBy,它检查该值是否已经是IOrderedQueryable,如果是,则使用ThenBy,否则使用OrderBy.有点臭,但不是很难做.
编辑:C#样本(未经测试):
- public static class QueryableOrdering
- {
- public static IOrderedQueryable<TElement> OrderByOrThenBy<TElement,TKey>
- (this IQueryable<TElement> source,Expression<Func<TElement,TKey>> ordering)
- {
- if (source == null)
- {
- throw new ArgumentNullException("source");
- }
- if (ordering == null)
- {
- throw new ArgumentNullException("ordering");
- }
- var ordered = source as IOrderedQueryable<TElement>;
- return ordered == null ? source.OrderBy(ordering)
- : ordered.ThenBy(ordering);
- }
- }