Extensions Docs Server: Sort API list

chrome/common/extensions/docs/server2/api_list_data_source.py

 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 import os
 
 import third_party.json_schema_compiler.model as model
 
 class APIListDataSource(object):
   """ This class creates a list of chrome.* APIs and chrome.experimental.* APIs
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     chrome_apis = []
     for i, template_name in enumerate(template_names):
       if model.UnixName(template_name) in api_names:
         if template_name.startswith('experimental'):
           experimental_apis.append({ 'name': template_name.replace('_', '.') })
         else:
           chrome_apis.append({ 'name': template_name.replace('_', '.') })
     chrome_apis[-1]['last'] = True
     experimental_apis[-1]['last'] = True
     return {
-      'chrome': sorted(chrome_apis),
-      'experimental': sorted(experimental_apis)
+      'chrome': sorted(chrome_apis, key=lambda x: x['name']),
+      'experimental': sorted(experimental_apis, key=lambda x: x['name'])

[not at google - send to devlin, 2012/07/30 20:22:00]

There's an "attrgetter" thing somewhere that does this, like, attrgetter('name')

however, sorting the template_names when you read them in might be more direct
in the first place.

[cduvall, 2012/07/30 20:26:29]

How about this?

     }
 
   def __getitem__(self, key):
     return self.get(key)
 
   def get(self, key):
     try:
       return self._cache.GetFromFile(self._api_path)[key]
     except Exception as e:
       return None