GUI improvement: Client Settings Page - Contextual Sorting when clicking on column headers

[gspannu]

Client Settings Page.
Clicking on column headers sorts the columns.

Assume the clients are defined by their IP addresses like

192.168.1.10
192.168.1.11
192.168.1.20
192.168.1.31
192.168.1.100
192.168.1.101
192.168.1.205 etc…

Sorting on the Client column should sort it like the above (i.e. mathematically incrementing ).. however, the sorting is actually done as if the data was text

192.168.1.10
192.168.1.100
192.168.1.101
192.168.1.11
192.168.1.20
192.168.1.205
192.168.1.31

Could this small GUI improvement be included in the next build please?

[ainar-g]

Thanks for the report! How would you prefer the clients to be sorted when a CIDR, a MAC, or a ClientID is used? The fact is, the client identifiers are text that is interpreted differently depending on the content.

I think we could use the IP comparison if both identifiers are IP addresses and switch to text comparison if either one of them is text, but I'm not sure.

@IldarKamalov, would that be feasible?

[gspannu]

Thanks for the report! How would you prefer the clients to be sorted when a CIDR, a MAC, or a ClientID is used? The fact is, the client identifiers are text that is interpreted differently depending on the content.

I think we could use the IP comparison if both identifiers are IP addresses and switch to text comparison if either one of them is text, but I'm not sure.

@IldarKamalov, would that be feasible?

I think mathematical number sort (if any numbers are involved, else text).
The would be the simple approach; although it may not be that simple to implement !

[ainar-g]

@gspannu, I think you mean what is called natural sorting. We'll consider that in the future, but for now the today's edge release applies IP address comparison logic for the appropriate identifiers. Can you please check if our solution works for you?

[gspannu]

@gspannu, I think you mean what is called natural sorting. We'll consider that in the future, but for now the today's edge release applies IP address comparison logic for the appropriate identifiers. Can you please check if our solution works for you?

Just tested... IP address sorting works like a charm.
Thanks.