Laravel collection sortBy not taking effect

Question

I'm trying to combine and sort the results from several db queries.

$events = collect();

$downedEvents = EventDowned::where('mission', $missionId)
   ->orderBy('mission_time', 'asc')
   ->get();

$events->push($downedEvents);

$getInOutEvents = EventGetInOut::where('mission', $missionId)
   ->orderBy('mission_time', 'asc')
   ->get();

$events->push($getInOutEvents);

$missileEvents = EventMissile::where('mission', $missionId)
   ->orderBy('mission_time', 'asc')
   ->get();

$events->push($missileEvents);

$flattenedEvents = $events->flatten();
$sortedEvents = $flattenedEvents->sortBy('mission_time');

return $sortedEvents->all();

The result looks like this:

As you can see it has correctly combined the results, however they remain in their original query order, not sorted.

I've also tried

$sortedEvents = $flattenedEvents->sortBy(function($event) {
    return (int) $event->mission_time;
});

Solution 1

A huge fail on my part, my pretty print JSON chrome extension was messing with the display order, viewing the raw response showed they were in fact sorted correctly... ::facepalm::

Solution 2

To extend on @Titan's answer, i guess the extensions/ postman maintain the array indexing order. Not really sure.

To get rid of that

return $collection->values();

Here is an example

$arr = collect([
  0 => [
      'name' => 'foo',
      'weight' => 70
  ],
  1 => [
      'name' => 'bar',
      'weight' => 80
  ]
 ]);

return $arr->sortByDesc('weight');

the extension will still keep the index order

return $arr->sortByDesc('weight')->values();

This will get the desired order.

Comments

[Shady Atef]

I will go back calmly to my AI study., But Good luck that you found it.

[Traxo]

Lmao this saved me... Why would it do that!?

[FeRcHo]

@Titan Really, that was the problem ?, Why do I have exactly the same problem and I have been trying to make the order work for hours and I have not managed any idea or recommendation? please

[Jicao]

I experienced the same issue with Postman... The pretty response was not ordered and the Raw response was ordered like I wanted ! Thanks

[Merkurial]

this should be marked as correct answer! you saved my day dude!

[Jonathan Martins]

That is it! 10th time that I've been here. Now its memorized, I promise!

[Giovanni S]

Was pulling my hair out on this! For anyone reading, "JSON Formatter" for Chrome does this. Thank you!