Sort field is ignored when using Custom Controller [DATAREST-1368]

Anuj Jamwal opened DATAREST-1368 and commented

Root Cause

When creating a custom controller, there is no way to specify the DomainClass. For a nested resource path like GET /posts/1/comments, the DomainClass is resolved as Post. The Sort Translator ignores the sort fields specified in the query params since they dont belong in the Post class.

Possible Resolution

The current logic in DomainClassResolver looks at the path and takes the first word as the repository. One possible resolution would be to allow the controller to explicitly specify the domain class. That way the DomainClassResolver can use this information to return the domain class rather than looking at the URL

Another method could be have an annotation that can be specified on method itself or have both.

Affects: 3.1.6 (Lovelace SR6)