I also very much prefer it be sorted so my eyes can quickly find what I'm looking for (or its absence).
~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 4:19 PM Jason Gerlowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally I like having the arguments sorted. Usually when I look at > this part of the Admin UI, I'm looking for the value of a particular > CLI arg, and the alphabetical ordering makes it easy to jump right to > the value I'm interested in. > > It's not often I'd come to the list and really care the exact order > the args appear in. The only use case I could imagine for that is if > a user has accidentally started Solr with a particular flag or param > specified multiple times and needs to know which value "won". (And > you could make the argument that even in that case, the user is best > served by leaving the args sorted so they can discover their mistake > more easily and fix their startup config.) > > That said, I don't care strongly and wouldn't lose a wink of sleep > over this one way or another. > > Best, > > Jason > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 3:59 PM Eric Pugh > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Works for me…. I don’t know that I have a strong reason to say that > sorting is the way to go, and therefore can’t come up with a reason for a > checkbox feature to do it either ;-). > > > > > > > > On Nov 18, 2021, at 3:28 PM, Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It's been bugging me for a while that the JVM Args list in the Solr > Admin UI is sorted, not shown in the actual order the arguments appear on > the command that started Solr. > > > > With the list of arguments sorted by the UI, you can't tell what the > actual order is. If you look at a process listing, the order can be seen, > but the admin UI is often the first thing people look at. I think the > admin UI should reflect the true argument order, not sort the list. > > > > If there were a really large number of arguments, scanning an unsorted > list to find something specific might become difficult, but I don't think a > typical install has so many arguments that this is a practical problem. > Maybe there could be an checkbox option near the list to sort it for > situations where somebody actually wants to do that? I don't know enough > about UI design to be able to make that happen. > > > > In server/solr-webapp/webapp/js/angular/controllers/index.js is this > line: > > > > $scope.commandLineArgs = data.jvm.jmx.commandLineArgs.sort(); > > > > I removed".sort()" from that line on an install of 8.11.0. On page > reload, the list was no longer sorted. > > > > I figured I should ask people what they think before committing that > change. Thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > Shawn > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > _______________________ > > Eric Pugh | Founder & CEO | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | > http://www.opensourceconnections.com | My Free/Busy > > Co-Author: Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, 3rd Ed > > This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be > Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless of > whether attachments are marked as such. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
