Fix #1854: Preserve @querystring order by making sort_keys optional by hasansyed107 · Pull Request #1985 · plone/plone.restapi

hasansyed107 · 2026-02-16T16:29:47Z

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stevepiercy · 2026-02-16T18:42:41Z

news/1854.bugfix

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+Allow services to opt-out of JSON sort_keys to preserve @querystring order.


Add markup and give yourself credit.

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Allow services to opt-out of JSON sort_keys to preserve @querystring order.

Allow services to opt-out of JSON `sort_keys` to preserve `@querystring` order. @hasansyed107

Still hasn't been updated. Don't know why it was resolved.

jensens · 2026-02-16T20:42:21Z

needs some love and a description.

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davisagli

This is not a good solution to the problem.

JSON does not guarantee that the order of object properties will be preserved.

When the order is important, we should serialize a list instead.

This means we have to first update Volto to accept either the existing object or a list. Then we can update the format in plone.restapi and make a breaking release.

mister-roboto · 2026-02-17T11:09:19Z

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hasansyed107 · 2026-02-17T11:44:40Z

Thank you for the clarification, @davisagli. I agree that a list-based structure is the correct approach when order must be preserved.

To confirm the expected structure: should the current mapping be converted into a list of objects with the key represented as an id property?

I’ll start reviewing the relevant Volto components to plan backward compatibility.

hasansyed107 · 2026-02-17T16:58:58Z

Hi @davisagli and @jensens, I have updated the @querystring service to return ordered lists for indexes and sortable_indexes as requested.

To ensure backward compatibility, I have opened the companion Volto PR here: https://github.com/plone/volto/pull/7917

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stevepiercy · 2026-02-18T10:58:30Z

news/1854.bugfix

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Allow services to opt-out of JSON sort_keys to preserve @querystring order.


Still hasn't been updated. Don't know why it was resolved.

davisagli

There are tests which are failing because of the change and need to be updated. And a few other details.

src/plone/restapi/services/__init__.py

davisagli · 2026-02-19T02:42:11Z

src/plone/restapi/services/__init__.py

+            sort_keys = getattr(self, "sort_keys", True)
            return json.dumps(
-                content, indent=2, sort_keys=True, separators=(", ", ": ")
+                content, indent=2, sort_keys=sort_keys, separators=(", ", ": ")


This is no longer necessary

src/plone/restapi/services/__init__.py

… formatting

hasansyed107 · 2026-02-19T14:10:33Z

Hi @davisagli and @stevepiercy,

I have completed the requested updates for this PR. It is now aligned with the corresponding frontend changes in Volto.

Summary of updates:

Implementation: Restored the original Service class docstrings and ensured the sort_keys opt-out logic is clean and non-breaking.

Documentation: Updated the OpenAPI specification by running make docs to reflect the change to a list-based structure in the @querystring endpoint.

News Fragment: Added a proper news fragment (news/1854.feature) with the correct credits and description.

Tests: Updated the Python backend tests to match the new response format.

Linked Volto PR: plone/volto#7917

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stevepiercy · 2026-02-19T23:04:35Z

docs/.DS_Store

Remove this file. It shouldn't be committed.

stevepiercy · 2026-02-19T23:06:01Z

news/1854.feature

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Allow services to opt-out of JSON sort_keys to preserve @querystring order. @hasansyed107


Still hasn't been resolved correctly with MyST markup.

Suggested change

Allow services to opt-out of JSON sort_keys to preserve @querystring order. @hasansyed107

Allow services to opt-out of JSON `sort_keys` to preserve `@querystring` order. @hasansyed107

More importantly, this only describes the part of the pull request that is no longer relevant.

Suggested change

Allow services to opt-out of JSON sort_keys to preserve @querystring order. @hasansyed107

The `@querystring` service now returns index as a list rather than an object, to preserve the order. @hasansyed107

And, it's a breaking change, so the file extension needs to be .breaking instead of .feature

davisagli · 2026-02-19T23:25:09Z

news/1854.feature

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Allow services to opt-out of JSON sort_keys to preserve @querystring order. @hasansyed107


More importantly, this only describes the part of the pull request that is no longer relevant.

Suggested change

Allow services to opt-out of JSON sort_keys to preserve @querystring order. @hasansyed107

The `@querystring` service now returns index as a list rather than an object, to preserve the order. @hasansyed107

And, it's a breaking change, so the file extension needs to be .breaking instead of .feature

davisagli · 2026-02-19T23:25:39Z

src/plone/restapi/services/__init__.py

+            sort_keys = getattr(self, "sort_keys", True)
            return json.dumps(
-                content, indent=2, sort_keys=True, separators=(", ", ": ")
+                content, indent=2, sort_keys=sort_keys, separators=(", ", ": ")


This is no longer relevant since we switched to returning a list. Please remove it.

hasansyed107 force-pushed the fix-sort-keys-ordering-1854 branch from 8248303 to febe325 Compare February 16, 2026 16:33

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Fix plone#1854: Preserve @querystring order by making sort_keys optional

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hasansyed107 force-pushed the fix-sort-keys-ordering-1854 branch from 3195b28 to dfaf1c1 Compare February 17, 2026 11:09

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Refactor @querystring to return ordered lists for indexes

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Querystring: Support ordered list format for indexes plone/volto#7917

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Fix: update backend tests to match list-based response format and fix…

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Add news fragment to preserve @querystring order

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Restore Service class and add sort_keys opt-out

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Final QA cleanup and removal of old news fragment

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Update openapi documentation

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		Allow services to opt-out of JSON sort_keys to preserve @querystring order.

	Allow services to opt-out of JSON sort_keys to preserve @querystring order.
	Allow services to opt-out of JSON `sort_keys` to preserve `@querystring` order. @hasansyed107

	Allow services to opt-out of JSON sort_keys to preserve @querystring order. @hasansyed107
	The `@querystring` service now returns index as a list rather than an object, to preserve the order. @hasansyed107

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