'Order by' like Mongoose.js

Is possible use the order like Mongoose.js?

• Current way:

something.findOne({
  order: [
    ['username', 'DESC'],
    ['firstname', 'ASC'],
    ['lastname', 'DESC'],
  ]
})

• Like Mongoose.js:

something.findOne({
  order: { username : -1, firstname : 1, lastname : -1 }
})

What do you think? 👯

[felixfbecker]

But it is not guaranteed and non-standard. There are lint rules that require that all object literals have alphabetically sorted properties. Coworkers might move around keys because they don’t expect it to change anything. There is no way to change the order at runtime. Minifiers might mangle them during their code -> AST -> minified code conversion.

Plus the current syntax also supports Sequelize.literal() and Sequelize.col(). You would not be able to support that with an object literal.

[felixfbecker]

Imo the current syntax is much more concise and there is no reason why it should be changed. Also your example does not specify in what order the attributes should be considered.