Sorting Secrets

[huyparody]

Hi @sbertix

I tried to login 3 different account, and use Authenticator.userDefaults.secrets.get() to get all the Secrets, but everytime I fetch, the array of Secrets change the order, can you reorder it with login timestamp?
e.g. account 1 login first so the order of that Secret would be at [0].

[sbertix]

Hey @huyparody,

It's something that has already been considered in the past, tbh, but I never went through with it cause I assumed users would rely on something a bit more robust than just a cookie timestamp sorting (which is beyond the scopes of the library, though).
I'm not against it though, so it's something that can totally be considered. The only thing I'd probably do different is having the last logged in Secret first, but again, just an opinion.

[huyparody]

Hey @huyparody,

It's something that has already been considered in the past, tbh, but I never went through with it cause I assumed users would rely on something a bit more robust than just a cookie timestamp sorting (which is beyond the scopes of the library, though).
I'm not against it though, so it's something that can totally be considered. The only thing I'd probably do different is having the last logged in Secret first, but again, just an opinion.

Do you have any idea, beside "having the last logged in Secret", and how should I have it, saves it to UserDefaults or something?

[sbertix]

I mean, if you need the feature right now, I suggest storing either the custom order yourself, for instance — as you mentioned — through UserDefaults, or just applying a custom sorting every time you call Authenticator.userDefaults.secrets.get().

I'm okay with trying to add some kind of sorting in the next release, though, whatever it might end up being.

[sbertix]

Of course when I say "storing the custom order yourself", I mean just the identifiers. So you could save them in UserDefaults and then map the array to a Secret one using the Authenticator accessory.