chore(wip): implement table sorting

[scottdover]

TODOs:

• Implement column sorting for REST connections
• Implement column sorting for ITC/COM connections

[scottdover]

Hey @scnwwu @smorrisj

I feel like the answer to this is obvious, but can we assume everyone with a REST connection has access to studio? And, is there a reason we shouldn't use a studio session for api calls/etc in the extension?

I'm looking into column sorting, and DataAccessApi.getRows doesn't provide a way to provide sorting information.

However, you can provide sorting data for one or more column in studio like this:

curl 'https://{studioUrl}/studio/sessions/{sessionId}/data/libraries/{library}/tables/{table}rows?start=0&limit=100&applyFormats=true&formatMissingValues=true' \
--data-raw '{
  "distinct": false,
  "filter": "",
  "sorts": [
    { "columnName": "COLUMN_TO_SORT", "sortOrder": "descending", "sortPriority": 0 }
  ]
}' \

This API call is what is used by the data viewer in studio.

Is there a reason we shouldn't use this?

[scnwwu]

Workbench goes through REST but no studio

[scnwwu]

Looks like getRowSet supports a sortBy, will it work?
https://developer.sas.com/rest-apis/compute/getRowSet