ASP.NET MVC 4 ordered set of items

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Hi everyone.
Recently i have encountered with such issue.
In my project i have a list of rooms (simple unordered set).

How can i implement ability of setting order in which this rooms will appears in second page?
Any thoughts?

The firs idea is to create a

C#

Queue<Rooms>

, and perform appropriate actions under it.
But i'm not sure if it's a right way ....

Posted 14-Aug-12 2:08am

Oleksandr Kulchytskyi

Updated 14-Aug-12 2:09am

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StianSandberg · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-14T03:05:00

To order a Queue:

C#

var rooms = new Queue<Rooms>();

var orderByNumberAsc = rooms.OrderBy(r => r.Number);
var orderByNumberDesc = rooms.OrderByDescending(r => r.Number);

To dynamically order this based on string you need an extension:

C#

public static IQueryable<T> OrderBy<T>(this IQueryable<T> items, string propertyName)
{
    var typeOfT = typeof(T);
    var parameter = Expression.Parameter(typeOfT, "parameter");
    var propertyType = typeOfT.GetProperty(propertyName).PropertyType;
    var propertyAccess = Expression.PropertyOrField(parameter, propertyName);
    var orderExpression = Expression.Lambda(propertyAccess, parameter);

    var expression = Expression.Call(typeof(Queryable), "OrderBy", new[] { typeOfT, propertyType }, items.Expression, Expression.Quote(orderExpression));
    return items.Provider.CreateQuery<T>(expression);
}

Then you can order by a string value:

C#

var rooms = new Queue<Rooms>().AsQueryable();
var orderByNumberAsc = rooms.OrderBy("Number");

And you could easy create an extension for OrderByDescending(string propertyName)

Or a little less dynamic approach using switch statement:

C#

switch (orderByParam)
{
    case "Number":
        rooms = rooms.OrderBy(r => r.Number);
        break;
    case "Capacity":
        rooms = rooms.OrderBy(r => r.Capacity);
        break;
}