List templates in alphabetical order

Currently templates are ordered by the newest created first. This made
sense when, after creating a new template, you were landed on the page
that listed all the templates. In other words, you needed to see
confirmation of the thing that you’ve just done.

Now (since https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/1195)
you get landed on the page for just that template. So you always see
the template you’ve just created, no matter how the list of templates is
ordered. So we are free to change the order of the templates.

Ordering by time created is not great, because it gives users no control
over which templates appear first. For example, our research reported
this from one team:

> One frustration they have is that when you add a new template it
> automatically goes to the top of the list. To get round this, whenever
> they add a new template they delete all of the existing ones and start
> again because they want to keep their templates in numerical order.
> They'd like to be able to control the order of templates in the list.

We _could_ give people some sort of drag-and-drop template ordering
thing. But this feels like overkill. I think that alphabetical order is
better because:

- it’s easily discoverable – anyone who wants to know how a list is
  ordered can quickly tell just by looking at it
- it’s universal – everyone knows how alphabetical ordering works
- it’s familiar – this is how people documents on their computer are
  ordered; there’s no new UI to learn
- it’s what users are doing already – from the same service as above:
  > They number their templates 1,2a, 2b, 3a etc

So this commit changes the ordering from newest created first to
alphabetical.

Previous changes to template order and navigation:
- https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/1163
- https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/1195
- https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/1330

Implementation notes
---

I refactored some of the tests here. I still don’t think they’re great
tests, but they’re a little more Pythonic now at least.

I also added a sort by template type, so that the order is deterministic
when you have, for example, an email template and a text message
template with the same name. If you have two text message templates with
the same name you’re on your own.
This commit is contained in:
Chris Hill-Scott
2017-11-23 11:37:35 +00:00
parent 3ad0ac62d4
commit b2ba2afbcd
5 changed files with 48 additions and 41 deletions

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@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ def test_get_all_templates_for_service(notify_db, notify_db_session, service_fac
assert len(dao_get_all_templates_for_service(service_2.id)) == 2
def test_get_all_templates_for_service_shows_newest_created_first(notify_db, notify_db_session, sample_service):
def test_get_all_templates_for_service_is_alphabetised(notify_db, notify_db_session, sample_service):
template_1 = create_sample_template(
notify_db,
notify_db_session,
@@ -190,14 +190,14 @@ def test_get_all_templates_for_service_shows_newest_created_first(notify_db, not
)
assert Template.query.count() == 3
assert dao_get_all_templates_for_service(sample_service.id)[0].name == 'Sample Template 3'
assert dao_get_all_templates_for_service(sample_service.id)[0].name == 'Sample Template 1'
assert dao_get_all_templates_for_service(sample_service.id)[1].name == 'Sample Template 2'
assert dao_get_all_templates_for_service(sample_service.id)[2].name == 'Sample Template 1'
assert dao_get_all_templates_for_service(sample_service.id)[2].name == 'Sample Template 3'
template_2.name = 'Sample Template 2 (updated)'
template_2.name = 'AAAAA Sample Template 2'
dao_update_template(template_2)
assert dao_get_all_templates_for_service(sample_service.id)[0].name == 'Sample Template 3'
assert dao_get_all_templates_for_service(sample_service.id)[1].name == 'Sample Template 2 (updated)'
assert dao_get_all_templates_for_service(sample_service.id)[0].name == 'AAAAA Sample Template 2'
assert dao_get_all_templates_for_service(sample_service.id)[1].name == 'Sample Template 1'
def test_get_all_returns_empty_list_if_no_templates(sample_service):

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@@ -120,12 +120,13 @@ def create_service_with_defined_sms_sender(
def create_template(
service,
template_type=SMS_TYPE,
template_name=None,
subject='Template subject',
content='Dear Sir/Madam, Hello. Yours Truly, The Government.',
template_id=None
):
data = {
'name': '{} Template Name'.format(template_type),
'name': template_name or '{} Template Name'.format(template_type),
'template_type': template_type,
'content': content,
'service': service,

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@@ -301,10 +301,10 @@ def test_should_be_able_to_get_all_templates_for_a_service(client, sample_user,
assert response.status_code == 200
update_json_resp = json.loads(response.get_data(as_text=True))
assert update_json_resp['data'][0]['name'] == 'my template 2'
assert update_json_resp['data'][0]['name'] == 'my template 1'
assert update_json_resp['data'][0]['version'] == 1
assert update_json_resp['data'][0]['created_at']
assert update_json_resp['data'][1]['name'] == 'my template 1'
assert update_json_resp['data'][1]['name'] == 'my template 2'
assert update_json_resp['data'][1]['version'] == 1
assert update_json_resp['data'][1]['created_at']

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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
import pytest
from flask import json
from itertools import product
from app.models import TEMPLATE_TYPES, EMAIL_TYPE
from tests import create_authorization_header
@@ -8,12 +9,15 @@ from tests.app.db import create_template
def test_get_all_templates_returns_200(client, sample_service):
num_templates = 3
templates = []
for i in range(num_templates):
for tmp_type in TEMPLATE_TYPES:
subject = 'subject_{}'.format(i) if tmp_type == EMAIL_TYPE else ''
templates.append(create_template(sample_service, template_type=tmp_type, subject=subject))
templates = [
create_template(
sample_service,
template_type=tmp_type,
subject='subject_{}'.format(name) if tmp_type == EMAIL_TYPE else '',
template_name=name,
)
for name, tmp_type in product(('A', 'B', 'C'), TEMPLATE_TYPES)
]
auth_header = create_authorization_header(service_id=sample_service.id)
@@ -25,25 +29,27 @@ def test_get_all_templates_returns_200(client, sample_service):
json_response = json.loads(response.get_data(as_text=True))
assert len(json_response['templates']) == num_templates * len(TEMPLATE_TYPES)
assert len(json_response['templates']) == len(templates)
# need to reverse index as get all templates returns list sorted by descending date
for i in range(len(json_response['templates'])):
reverse_index = len(json_response['templates']) - 1 - i
assert json_response['templates'][reverse_index]['id'] == str(templates[i].id)
assert json_response['templates'][reverse_index]['body'] == templates[i].content
assert json_response['templates'][reverse_index]['type'] == templates[i].template_type
if templates[i].template_type == EMAIL_TYPE:
assert json_response['templates'][reverse_index]['subject'] == templates[i].subject
for index, template in enumerate(json_response['templates']):
assert template['id'] == str(templates[index].id)
assert template['body'] == templates[index].content
assert template['type'] == templates[index].template_type
if templates[index].template_type == EMAIL_TYPE:
assert template['subject'] == templates[index].subject
@pytest.mark.parametrize("tmp_type", TEMPLATE_TYPES)
def test_get_all_templates_for_valid_type_returns_200(client, sample_service, tmp_type):
num_templates = 3
templates = []
for i in range(num_templates):
subject = 'subject_{}'.format(i) if tmp_type == EMAIL_TYPE else ''
templates.append(create_template(sample_service, template_type=tmp_type, subject=subject))
templates = [
create_template(
sample_service,
template_type=tmp_type,
template_name='Template {}'.format(i),
subject='subject_{}'.format(i) if tmp_type == EMAIL_TYPE else ''
)
for i in range(3)
]
auth_header = create_authorization_header(service_id=sample_service.id)
@@ -55,16 +61,14 @@ def test_get_all_templates_for_valid_type_returns_200(client, sample_service, tm
json_response = json.loads(response.get_data(as_text=True))
assert len(json_response['templates']) == num_templates
assert len(json_response['templates']) == len(templates)
# need to reverse index as get all templates returns list sorted by descending date
for i in range(len(json_response['templates'])):
reverse_index = len(json_response['templates']) - 1 - i
assert json_response['templates'][reverse_index]['id'] == str(templates[i].id)
assert json_response['templates'][reverse_index]['body'] == templates[i].content
assert json_response['templates'][reverse_index]['type'] == tmp_type
if templates[i].template_type == EMAIL_TYPE:
assert json_response['templates'][reverse_index]['subject'] == templates[i].subject
for index, template in enumerate(json_response['templates']):
assert template['id'] == str(templates[index].id)
assert template['body'] == templates[index].content
assert template['type'] == tmp_type
if templates[index].template_type == EMAIL_TYPE:
assert template['subject'] == templates[index].subject
@pytest.mark.parametrize("tmp_type", TEMPLATE_TYPES)