httpie changing the json fields order in the output

Wondering how can I force httpie to not change the json fields order?

curl -i http://localhost:8080/v1/notes/569766aed4c661fba8d85a12

{
  "id": "569766aed4c661fba8d85a12",
  "content": "hi"
}

with httpie

http get :8080/v1/notes/569766aed4c661fba8d85a12 

{
  "content": "hi",
  "id": "569766aed4c661fba8d85a12"
}

I prefer the id field to be always the first. Any thoughts?

[carlfish]

I just lost way more time than I’m comfortable admitting trying to track down a problem in my server-side JSON library because I couldn’t work out why it was sending the data out in the wrong order. It didn’t even occur to me that the client could be reordering stuff.

Is it even worthwhile having the option to reorder JSON? 90% of the time it’s going to obfuscate rather than improve server output.

I’d submit a pull request, but it would just be changing a “True” to a “False” in one file. 😃 (see below)

[Baekalfen]

Is there any traction on this issue? Like @carlfish, I have just spend an embarrassingly long amount of time trying to correct a bug in my server, only to find, that httpie was the issue.

It seems very unintuitive that it would reorder/sort data from the server, without the user explicitly enabling it.