Sorting and Ordering
Sorting is another important feature that helps user navigation. Again, when we build any application, we need to keep the user experience in mind. Our application could eventually store millions of recipes, so we need to provide an easy way for our users to navigate the recipes and find the recipe they want.
Previously, the recipes that we sent back were sorted by time by default. Let's implement some other sorting criteria in our Smilecook application. We can still keep the default sorting criteria such as time, but we want to allow the user to define the searching criteria they want; for example, they can specify that they want the recipes to be sorted by cooking time. This is a possibility as the user may want to cook a quick meal, which means they will only be interested in recipes with short cooking times.
For our Smilecook application, sorting and ordering can be done by adding the sort and order parameters. We can put the sorting criteria (for...
