Sorting Date’s on ArrayCollection in Flex

First things first, read about the mx.collections.Sort Class before going in to the code below.

About the Post,suppose i have a AC[ArrayCollection] like below;

[Bindable]
private var arrClldetails:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([
{Fname:"Kranthi", Lname:"Kata", dob:"21 Sep 79"},
{Fname:"Vasanth", Lname:"Lola", dob:"11 Jun 80"},
{Fname:"Manoj", Lname:"Pati", dob:"16 July 81"},
{Fname:"John McClain", Lname:"Mela", dob:"15 Feb 72"},
{Fname:"Ross", Lname:"Geller", dob:"02 Jan 74"},
{Fname:"Chandler", Lname:"Bing", dob:"18 Oct 76"}
]);

Now i want to Sort the “dob” Date field in the AC.,so for this i need to
write a compareFunction for Sort which in turn is applied to the AC like below,

//Compare Function
private function fnCompareFunction(ObjA:Object,ObjB:Object,fields:Array = null):int
{
//fnDtfParceFunct is a Date parse function avail in DownloadCode.
var dateA:Date=fnDtfParceFunct(ObjA.dob,”DD/MM/YY”);
var dateB:Date=fnDtfParceFunct(ObjB.dob,”DD/MM/YY”);
return ObjectUtil.dateCompare(dateA, dateB);
}

Now apply this CompareFunction to Sort and then apply that to AC like below,

var sort:Sort=new Sort();
sort.compareFunction=fnCompareFunction;
arrClldetails.sort=sort;

Now refresh the AC for Sort to take effect,

arrClldetails.refresh();

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Enjoy the post.