[API Namespace] cannot change the order of properties for API Form

[Ayon95]

Properties of an object cannot be rearranged. They seem to get rearranged back to their initial order after hitting Save.

Suppose, I want the properties to be arranged in this order:

The new order doesn't get applied after saving:

[donrestarone]

@Pralish has the most context on this

[donrestarone]

we see that the issue is not in the client / params/ controller because the object property order is preserved while it is in the controller layer:

[42, 51] in /var/app/app/controllers/comfy/admin/api_namespaces_controller.rb
   42:
   43:   # PATCH/PUT /api_namespaces/1 or /api_namespaces/1.json
   44:   def update
   45:     respond_to do |format|
   46:       byebug
=> 47:       if @api_namespace.update(api_namespace_params)
   48:         format.html { handle_success_redirect }
   49:         format.json { render :show, status: :ok, location: @api_namespace }
   50:       else
   51:         format.html { handle_error_redirect }
(byebug) params
#<ActionController::Parameters {"_method"=>"patch", "authenticity_token"=>"lov7X4x6YBk8stvY1Zva-0drGB7ibzSF2GiYyNsOB9Uc3gibQQKXL6p0bu26AfomHre40XUO_klAFepn397ZxA", "api_namespace"=>{"name"=>"test", "version"=>"1", "properties"=>"{\"Object\":{\"a\":\"b\",\"c\":\"d\"},\"Null\":null,\"Array\":[1,2,3],\"Number\":123,\"String\":\"Hello World\",\"Boolean\":true}", "non_primitive_properties_attributes"=>{"0"=>{"field_type"=>"file", "label"=>"dfhdex", "content"=>"<div class=\"trix-content\">\r\n  <div class=\"trix-content\">\r\n  <div class=\"trix-content\">\r\n  \r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n", "_destroy"=>"false", "id"=>"1"}, "1"=>{"field_type"=>"richtext", "label"=>"hdrthdrth", "content"=>"<div class=\"trix-content\">\r\n  <div class=\"trix-content\">\r\n  <div class=\"trix-content\">\r\n  \r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n", "_destroy"=>"false", "id"=>"2"}}, "requires_authentication"=>"1", "has_form"=>"1"}, "commit"=>"Save", "controller"=>"comfy/admin/api_namespaces", "action"=>"update", "id"=>"test"} permitted: false>
(byebug) params[:api_namespace][:properties]
"{\"Object\":{\"a\":\"b\",\"c\":\"d\"},\"Null\":null,\"Array\":[1,2,3],\"Number\":123,\"String\":\"Hello World\",\"Boolean\":true}"
(byebug)

the above is the same order I submitted the form in (notice how Object is first, followed by Null and then Array)

[donrestarone]

according to @Pralish

The cause is that the jsonb field doesn't preserve order of objects, Inorder to preserve order we wld have to either store data as array, or use json field instead of jsonb or save the order somewhere else.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52123133/rails-jsonb-prevent-json-keys-from-reordering-when-jsonb-is-saved-to-postgresq