aws / aws/aws-appsync-community
Feature Request: Support for VTL Sort Tool
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- HTML
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Description
I have seen several requests for this before on the Community Forums, but I can't see it here so wanted to make sure it was raised officially.
Support for this:
https://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/apidocs/org/apache/velocity/tools/generic/SortTool.html
Or ideally the whole range of tools:
http://velocity.apache.org/tools/3.0/generic.html?
We are finding that a Query to DynamoDB will often not have the results sorted in the right format for the UI (IDs used in the sortKey but alphabetical sorting needed for the GUI). So from a performance aspect we assume that doing this via VTL and not client side JS will yield the best results.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the linked Velocity SortTool and generic tools documentation, then review how AWS AppSync handles VTL templates and DynamoDB query results. Define whether the request covers SortTool alone or the broader tool set, and validate the supported behavior against the stated UI sorting use case.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, graphql
- Domain
- api, cloud, databases
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100