From ff749dfdf52e4b12e22283920be840fd55307eb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damien De Paoli <ddp@depaoli.id.au>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 00:01:33 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] put ordering into Author object so fields render as surname
 before firstname

---
 author.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/author.py b/author.py
index acf6e79..732d8c3 100644
--- a/author.py
+++ b/author.py
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ from __main__ import db, app, ma
 ################################################################################
 class Author(db.Model):
     id = db.Column(db.Integer, unique=True, nullable=False, primary_key=True)
-    firstnames = db.Column(db.String(50), unique=False, nullable=False)
     surname = db.Column(db.String(30), unique=False, nullable=False)
+    firstnames = db.Column(db.String(50), unique=False, nullable=False)
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return "<id: {}, firstnames: {}, surname: {}>".format(self.id,self.firstnames, self.surname)
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ class Author(db.Model):
 # Helper class that inherits a .dump() method to turn class Author into json / useful in jinja2
 ################################################################################
 class AuthorSchema(ma.SQLAlchemyAutoSchema):
-    class Meta: model = Author
+    class Meta:
+        model = Author
+        ordered = True
 
 ################################################################################
 # Helper class that defines a form for author, used to make html <form>, with field validation (via wtforms)