ngRepeat iterates over object in alphabetical order

[cztomsik]

This is very unexpected, all major browsers retain order of inserted keys and it is not going to change in any way in future as it would break a lot of existing code.

No matter of that, angular does it its own "way".

Basically it makes this feature completely useless as you can't use it for example for iterating computed averages, and similar great things.

This is major flaw in design and fixing it involves removing one line:

collectionKeys.sort();

Can we at least discuss this? I am highly convinced this (possibly) breaking change should affect minimum people and if orderBy worked on objects too, fixing may be very simple on their side.

[pkozlowski-opensource]

There was a lot of discussion about it in #1286

[caitp]

@cztomsik, major browsers don't all keep the order of keys added to objects in the same way... So there is actually some issues there.

I agree it would be preferable if the orderBy filter supported object collections as well as arrays, though.

I've set this as PRs plz!, because I believe it should be desirable to fix the orderBy filter to support this use case. If anyone wants to have a go at it, please do =)

In the mean time, you could get around this by simply using arrays instead of objects, IMO.

[mgurov]

+1

[sricc]

+1