Bug 1479483

Summary: no longer able to sort by descending order the api output in 58
Product: Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine Reporter: Felix Dewaleyne <fdewaley>
Component: APIAssignee: Gregg Tanzillo <gtanzill>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Dave Johnson <dajohnso>
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Version: 5.8.0CC: fdewaley, jhardy, jtullo, obarenbo, smallamp
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Target Release: cfme-future   
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Description Felix Dewaleyne 2017-08-08 15:47:58 UTC 
Description of problem:
no longer able to sort by descending order the api output in 5.8

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.8.1

How reproducible:
all the time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.# curl -k --user aa:bb -s -H Content-type: application/json -H Accept: application/json -X GET "https://example.cloudforms.com/api/requests?sort_by=id&sort_order=descending&limit=10&expand=resources" | python -m json.tool | egrep '\"id\":|updated_on'
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Actual results:
the output is sorted in ascending order

Expected results:
the output is sorted as passed

Additional info:
no error raised in the logs for this
happens in 5.8.0 and 5.8.1, does not in 5.7
Comment 2 Jillian Tullo 2017-08-10 16:51:58 UTC 
This is not a bug, as the method for sorting is via `sort_order=desc` or `sort_order=asc`. I have verified that sorting works via `sort_order=desc`

This is also documented in the API docs here: http://manageiq.org/docs/reference/latest/api/overview/query