Feature: sort items shared a same length after sort by line-length

[ntnyq]

What rule do you want to change?

any rule

Describe the problem

I checked docs of sort-exports and didn't found any option to make it possible to sort items shared a same length to a certain order after sort by line-length.

May be we should add a new option?

Code example

export * from './sortAttrs'
export * from './prefixIds'
export * from './cleanupIds'
export * from './mergePaths'
export * from './removeDesc'
export * from './reusePaths'
export * from './removeTitle'
export * from './mergeStyles'
export * from './removeXMLNS'
export * from './removeXlink'
export * from './removeAttrs'
export * from './inlineStyles'
export * from './cleanupAttrs'
export * from './minifyStyles'
export * from './convertColors'
export * from './presetDefault'
export * from './removeDoctype'
export * from './removeViewBox'
export * from './removeComments'
export * from './removeMetadata'
export * from './collapseGroups'
export * from './removeUnusedNS'
export * from './removeEmptyText'
export * from './convertPathData'
export * from './removeDimensions'
export * from './convertTransform'
export * from './sortDefsChildren'
export * from './removeEmptyAttrs'
export * from './removeHiddenElems'
export * from './removeUselessDefs'
export * from './removeXMLProcInst'
export * from './removeStyleElement'
export * from './removeRasterImages'
export * from './convertShapeToPath'
export * from './removeEditorsNSData'
export * from './convertStyleToAttrs'
export * from './removeEditorsNSData'
export * from './removeScriptElement'
export * from './cleanupListOfValues'
export * from './removeElementsByAttr'
export * from './cleanupNumericValues'
export * from './removeOffCanvasPaths'
export * from './moveElemsAttrsToGroup'
export * from './moveGroupAttrsToElems'
export * from './removeDeprecatedAttrs'
export * from './removeEmptyContainers'
export * from './convertEllipseToCircle'
export * from './addClassesToSVGElement'
export * from './convertOneStopGradients'
export * from './cleanupEnableBackground'
export * from './removeUnknownsAndDefaults'
export * from './addAttributesToSVGElement'
export * from './removeUselessStrokeAndFill'
export * from './removeAttributesBySelector'
export * from './removeNonInheritableGroupAttrs'

Additional comments

No response

Validations

• Read the docs.
• Check that there isn't already an issue that reports the same bug to avoid creating a duplicate.

[hugop95]

The current behavior is to allow the user to place same-length items in the order that they want, I think that we should keep that by default.

I don't think that there is a need to add a complex fallback sorting behavior for items with the same length. I assume that most use cases would be to sort items of the same length alphabetically?

[ntnyq]

Yeah, I prefer to sort same length items alphabetically too. But currently the plugin just leave it as it is.

[hugop95]

I'll see what's the best way to integrate such an option.

[hugop95]

Still trying to find the best way to implement this.

Requirement: fallback configuration must handle at least:

• type setting.
• order setting.

Possible solutions:

• Add a fallbackConfiguration: { order, type } option. Con: not very explicit at what it's doing.
• Allow users to do

{
  sort: [
    {
      type: 'line-length',
      order: 'desc'
    },
    {
      type: 'alphabetical',
      order: 'asc'
    },
  ]
}

Con: distinct from the existing type and order attributes.

• Allow users to do

{
  type: ['line-length', 'alphabetical'],
  order: ['desc', 'asc']
}

Pros: Explicit.
Con: primary and fallback configurations are mixed into the same attributes.

[ntnyq]

I prefer the fallbackConfiguration way since this option is an optional enhancement only for sort type is set to line-length.

And maybe we should find a more semantic option name for it.

[hugop95]

this option is an optional enhancement only for sort type is set to line-length.

This feature is also a hard requirement for Feature: sort-modules in order of use #434
. It is possible that users might want to sort by

order of use > line-length > alphabetical.

In which case, we should be able to handle a list of fallback configurations.