Update dag list default sorting to alphabetically

[guan404ming]

Why

Currently the default dag list sorting isn’t by dag_display_name which is not really straightforward

How

Update the default sorting to alphabetically.

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[pierrejeambrun]

Not really, the default order is last_run_start_date. Which I think is expected because you want to see dags that recently run first.

Why do you think dag_id makes more sense by default ?

[Lee-W]

Not really, the default order is last_run_start_date. Which I think is expected because you want to see dags that recently run first.

Why do you think dag_id makes more sense by default ?

I don't have a strong opinion, but using last_run_start_date as the default order keeps reordering the dags and makes it a little hard for me to find the dag I want to find. But I guess I just accept it at some point

[pierrejeambrun]

We can go for dag_display_name by default if this is preferable. But that's not where this is done in the code.

  const orderBy = sort ? `${sort.desc ? "-" : ""}${sort.id}` : "-last_run_start_date";

Dissmissing my review since there might be a better place for this fix as Pierre mentioned

[Lee-W]

We can go for dag_display_name by default if this is preferable. But that's not where this is done in the code.

  const orderBy = sort ? `${sort.desc ? "-" : ""}${sort.id}` : "-last_run_start_date";

Yep, dag_display_name is definitely way better than dag_id.

[guan404ming]

Thanks for pointing out. I've updated to use dag_display_name to sort. Also fix the mistake in connection default sort.

[aritra24]

Is it perhaps better to make it configurable somewhere what you want to sort by? Different people might have different preferences of what to sort by.

[ashb]

It should be topological, falling back to the order it is added to the dag.

There is an existing bug for this

[ashb]

Sorry, totally misread this and thought it was about tasks

[guan404ming]

Make sense to make a config. I would try to implement it. Thanks!

[jedcunningham]

Different people may want different sort order in the same instance too though. Maybe the sort choice should be sticky when you navigate away and back, instead of a global config.

[aritra24]

Yeah, that makes sense. We do that for a bunch of stuff already with graph view, etc. We can do the same thing here as well.

[pierrejeambrun]

LGTM, we can add follow up PR to persist the sorting preference in the localstorage.

[guan404ming]

Sure, I would open following PR for that. Thanks.

[github-actions]

Backport successfully created: v3-0-test

Status	Branch	Result
✅	v3-0-test