sort plot schema object before writting to file

Author: archmoj

tasks/schema.js

@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ var path = require('path');
 
 var constants = require('./util/constants');
 var plotlyNode = require('./util/plotly_node');
+var sortObject = require('./util/sort_object');
 
 function makeSchema(plotlyPath, schemaPath) {
     var Plotly = plotlyNode(plotlyPath);
 
-    var plotSchema = Plotly.PlotSchema.get();
+    var plotSchema = sortObject(Plotly.PlotSchema.get());
     var plotSchemaStr = JSON.stringify(plotSchema, null, 1);
     fs.writeFileSync(schemaPath, plotSchemaStr);
 

tasks/util/sort_object.js

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+function caseInsensitive(a, b) {
+    return a.toLowerCase().localeCompare(b.toLowerCase());
+}
+
+function sortObject(obj) {
+    var allKeys = Object.keys(obj);
+    allKeys.sort(caseInsensitive);
+
+    var newObj = {};
+    for(var i = 0; i < allKeys.length; i++) {
+        var key = allKeys[i];
+        var v = obj[key];
+        newObj[key] = (typeof v === 'object' && v !== null && !(v instanceof Array)) ?
+            sortObject(v) :
+            newObj[key] = v;
+    }
+
+    return newObj;
+}
+
+module.exports = sortObject;