Don't you mean CellTable#getColumnIndex(sortList.get(0).getColumn())
then look up the string from ColumnMap by using the index?

On Mar 15, 1:22 pm, John LaBanca <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can call CellTable#getColumn(int) to get the Column object from the
> index.  Then you can use a Map of Column to ServerColumnId to resolve the
> value to send to the server.
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> Thanks,
> John LaBanca
> [email protected]
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> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Stephan T <[email protected]>wrote:
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> > I'm trying to implement server side sorting using CellTable and
> > AsyncDataProvider in GWT 2.2. I've followed the example in the
> > documentation and have everything working with the AsyncDataProvider
> > only fetching ten objects at a time. But when it comes to sorting I
> > can't make it work.
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> > I can't figure out how to tell the server on which of the objects
> > attributes to sort the query result. In the onRangeChanged-method I
> > can get the ColumnSortList and then get the columns. But the column
> > object does not contain information like the columns headerString.
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> > If I could get the columns headerString I could figure out which
> > attribute of the object to do the sorting on, but I can't and now I'm
> > out of ideas.
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> > I could of course subclass the column-object and add some kind of
> > identifier-method to it, but I have a feeling that it's something I've
> > missed because it shouldn't be that tedious.
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