{"id": "changelog:id161", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id161", "title": "0.15 (2018-04-09)", "content": "The biggest new feature in this release is the ability to sort by column. On the\n                table page the column headers can now be clicked to apply sort (or descending\n                sort), or you can specify  ?_sort=column  or  ?_sort_desc=column  directly\n                in the URL. \n             \n                 \n                     table_rows  =>  table_rows_count ,  filtered_table_rows  =>\n                         filtered_table_rows_count \n                     Renamed properties. Closes  #194 \n                 \n                 \n                     New  sortable_columns  option in  metadata.json  to control sort options. \n                     You can now explicitly set which columns in a table can be used for sorting\n                        using the  _sort  and  _sort_desc  arguments using  metadata.json : \n                     {\n    \"databases\": {\n        \"database1\": {\n            \"tables\": {\n                \"example_table\": {\n                    \"sortable_columns\": [\n                        \"height\",\n                        \"weight\"\n                    ]\n                }\n            }\n        }\n    }\n} \n                     Refs  #189 \n                 \n                 \n                     Column headers now link to sort/desc sort - refs  #189 \n                 \n                 \n                     _sort  and  _sort_desc  parameters for table views \n                     Allows for paginated sorted results based on a specified column. \n                     Refs  #189 \n                 \n                 \n                     Total row count now correct even if  _next  applied \n                 \n                 \n                     Use .custom_sql() for _group_count implementation (refs  #150 ) \n                 \n                 \n                     Make HTML title more readable in query template ( #180 ) [Ryan Pitts] \n                 \n                 \n                     New  ?_shape=objects/object/lists  param for JSON API ( #192 ) \n                     New  _shape=  parameter replacing old  .jsono  extension \n                     Now instead of this: \n                     /database/table.jsono \n                     We use the  _shape  parameter like this: \n                     /database/table.json?_shape=objects \n                     Also introduced a new  _shape  called  object  which looks like this: \n                     /database/table.json?_shape=object \n                     Returning an object for the rows key: \n                     ...\n\"rows\": {\n    \"pk1\": {\n        ...\n    },\n    \"pk2\": {\n        ...\n    }\n} \n                     Refs  #122 \n                 \n                 \n                     Utility for writing test database fixtures to a .db file \n                     python tests/fixtures.py /tmp/hello.db \n                     This is useful for making a SQLite database of the test fixtures for\n                        interactive exploration. \n                 \n                 \n                     Compound primary key  _next=  now plays well with extra filters \n                     Closes  #190 \n                 \n                 \n                     Fixed bug with keyset pagination over compound primary keys \n                     Refs  #190 \n                 \n                 \n                     Database/Table views inherit  source/license/source_url/license_url \n                        metadata \n                     If you set the  source_url/license_url/source/license  fields in your root\n                        metadata those values will now be inherited all the way down to the database\n                        and table templates. \n                     The  title/description  are NOT inherited. \n                     Also added unit tests for the HTML generated by the metadata. \n                     Refs  #185 \n                 \n                 \n                     Add metadata, if it exists, to heroku temp dir ( #178 ) [Tony Hirst] \n                 \n                 \n                     Initial documentation for pagination \n                 \n                 \n                     Broke up test_app into test_api and test_html \n                 \n                 \n                     Fixed bug with .json path regular expression \n                     I had a table called  geojson  and it caused an exception because the regex\n                        was matching  .json  and not  \\.json \n                 \n                 \n                     Deploy to Heroku with Python 3.6.3", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/194\", \"label\": \"#194\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/189\", \"label\": \"#189\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/189\", \"label\": \"#189\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/189\", \"label\": \"#189\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/150\", \"label\": \"#150\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/180\", \"label\": \"#180\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/192\", \"label\": \"#192\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/122\", \"label\": \"#122\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/190\", \"label\": \"#190\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/190\", \"label\": \"#190\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/185\", \"label\": \"#185\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/178\", \"label\": \"#178\"}]"}