How do we get the sorted datasource data when sorting is done on mat-table?

Bug, feature request, or proposal:

feature request

What is the expected behavior?

When we sort the mat-table we should get the sorted values as displayed on table.

Example 1: i feed age array [3, 2, 1, 4 ,5] to this.dataSource.data and i ll display those data in age column, after that i ll go and sort the age column on table that will get changed to [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Now i should get the sorted array on some event. How do i do that?

Example 2: I fed this.dataSource = [ {name: 'Frozen yogurt', calories: '159', fat: '6', carbs: '24', protein: '4'}, {name: 'Ice cream sandwich', calories: '237', fat: '9', carbs: '37', protein: '4'}, {name: 'Eclair', calories: '262', fat: '16', carbs: '24', protein: '6'}, {name: 'Cupcake', calories: '305', fat: '4', carbs: '67', protein: '4'}, {name: 'Gingerbread', calories: '356', fat: '16', carbs: '49', protein: '4'}, ]; and got table like as shown in pic unsorted.png when i sort on calories table data changes to [ {name: 'Gingerbread', calories: '356', fat: '16', carbs: '49', protein: '4'}, {name: 'Cupcake', calories: '305', fat: '4', carbs: '67', protein: '4'}, {name: 'Eclair', calories: '262', fat: '16', carbs: '24', protein: '6'}, {name: 'Ice cream sandwich', calories: '237', fat: '9', carbs: '37', protein: '4'}, {name: 'Frozen yogurt', calories: '159', fat: '6', carbs: '24', protein: '4'}, ] and got table like as shown in pic sorted.png

How do i get the sorted array?

Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected?

Angular CLI: 6.0.7 Node: 10.2.1 OS: linux x64 Angular: 6.0.3 @angular-devkit/architect 0.6.7 @angular-devkit/build-angular 0.6.7 @angular-devkit/build-optimizer 0.6.7 @angular-devkit/core 0.6.7 @angular-devkit/schematics 0.6.7 @angular/cdk 6.2.1 @angular/cli 6.0.7 @angular/material 6.2.1 @ngtools/webpack 6.0.7 @schematics/angular 0.6.7 @schematics/update 0.6.7 rxjs 6.2.0 typescript 2.7.2 webpack 4.8.3

[andrewseguin]

If you want to know what data the data source passes to the table, you can hook into the connect stream like the table does

https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-mllz9q?file=app/table-sorting-example.ts

[danielmoncada]

You can use the sort method instead

dataSource.sortData(dataSource.filteredData,dataSource.sort);