Fix natural sorting of tuples

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
-## v0.8.10 -2024-09-24
+## v0.8.11 - 2024-09-25
+
+- Fixed lexicographic natural sorting of tuples (this would fall back to default sort order before) [#568](https://github.com/MakieOrg/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl/pull/568).
+
+## v0.8.10 - 2024-09-24
 
 - Fixed markercolor in `ScatterLines` legends when it did not match `color` [#567](https://github.com/MakieOrg/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl/pull/567).
 

Project.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "AlgebraOfGraphics"
 uuid = "cbdf2221-f076-402e-a563-3d30da359d67"
 authors = ["Pietro Vertechi", "Julius Krumbiegel"]
-version = "0.8.10"
+version = "0.8.11"
 
 [deps]
 Accessors = "7d9f7c33-5ae7-4f3b-8dc6-eff91059b697"

src/scales.jl

@@ -499,6 +499,21 @@ push_different!(v, val) = !isempty(v) && isequal(last(v), val) || push!(v, val)
 natural_lt(x, y) = isless(x, y)
 natural_lt(x::AbstractString, y::AbstractString) = NaturalSort.natural(x, y)
 
+# the below `natural_lt`s are copying Julia's `isless` implementation
+natural_lt(::Tuple{}, ::Tuple{}) = false
+natural_lt(::Tuple{}, ::Tuple) = true
+natural_lt(::Tuple, ::Tuple{}) = false
+
+# """
+#     natural_lt(t1::Tuple, t2::Tuple)
+
+# Return `true` when `t1` is less than `t2` in lexicographic order.
+# """
+function natural_lt(t1::Tuple, t2::Tuple)
+    a, b = t1[1], t2[1]
+    natural_lt(a, b) || (isequal(a, b) && natural_lt(tail(t1), tail(t2)))
+end
+
 function mergesorted(v1, v2)
     issorted(v1; lt = natural_lt) && issorted(v2; lt = natural_lt) || throw(ArgumentError("Arguments must be sorted"))
     T = promote_type(eltype(v1), eltype(v2))

test/run_reference_tests.jl

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ function compare_images(a::AbstractMatrix{<:Union{Makie.RGB,Makie.RGBA}}, b::Abs
 end
 
 function reftest(f::Function, name::String, update::Bool = get(ENV, "UPDATE_REFIMAGES", "false") == "true"; threshold = 0.05)
+    @info name
     CairoMakie.activate!(px_per_unit = 1)
     fig = with_theme(f, size = (400, 400))
     path = joinpath(@__DIR__, "reference_tests")

test/scales.jl

@@ -188,4 +188,10 @@ end
     scale = scales[1]
     @test scale isa CategoricalScale
     @test scale.data == ["Id 1", "Id 2", "Id 10", "Id 21", "Id 100"]
+
+    @test sort(["1", "10", "2"]) == ["1", "10", "2"]
+    @test sort(["1", "10", "2"], lt = AlgebraOfGraphics.natural_lt) == ["1", "2", "10"]
+
+    @test sort([("1", 1), ("10", 2), ("2",3)]) == [("1", 1), ("10", 2), ("2", 3)]
+    @test sort([("1", 1), ("10", 2), ("2",3)], lt = AlgebraOfGraphics.natural_lt) == [("1", 1), ("2", 3), ("10", 2)]
 end