Order by length of tag name about taggit-selectize

[nshafer]

Hi Josh,

In looking into this I am a little confused. From what I can tell, Selectize.js does its own sorting of the result set using Sifter.js, and based on scoring a match. Also, from what I can tell, Selectize is designed to do the sorting on the client side and not the server side. Just in some simple tests the cost of adding the sorting on Postgres went from .5 to 33.5, so a massive increase in the work that the database has to do. I don't have a very large dataset to test with, but after looking at how things work and in my testing I don't see a difference between default behavior and your modified function. Have you seen a difference?

[joshkersey]

In this particular use case it's a Django admin input for tagging. The admin users were complaining of the single word results not appearing.

The difference we've seen is that the single word tags are now appearing at the top of the result list rather than not appearing on the result list at all even with RECOMMENDATION_LIMIT: 30. On occasion the results are not in precise length order but it's made my client happy.

[nshafer]

Hmm, there must be something in either Selectize.js or Sifter.js that is honoring the original sorting in some way or another. For now, we'll just leave it as is. There is nothing stopping you or someone else using this module from making their own view that returns the data any ways they want, but in the interest of performance for the common case, I'll leave the view as-is. Thanks for the info!