AngularJS ng-repeat orderBy date not working

Question

I have a working ng-repeat, that I would like to order by descending date (newest items first).

However, I can not seem to get it to work. I have double checked quoting, etc. I have tried orderBy:'createdate':reverse , orderBy:'article.createdate':reverse, and orderBy:'data.blog.article.createdate':reverse None seem to work.

This is my view:

<article data-ng-if="article.id == post || post===NULL" data-ng-repeat="article in data.blog.article | orderBy:'createdate':reverse | slice:currentPage*pageSize:currentPage+1*pageSize">     <h2 class="blog-post-title">         <a href="#!/blog/{{article.id}}" title="Permalink to {{article.title.__cdata}}">{{article.title.__cdata}}</a>     </h2>     <span class="blog-post-meta">Posted on {{article.createdate | date:'MMMM dd, yyyy h:mma'}} by {{article.author}}</span>     <div class="blog-post-content" ng-bind-html="article.content.__cdata">{{article.content.__cdata}}</div>  </article> 

Here is a sample of the data (converted to JSON from XML using X2JS):

{     "blog": {         "article": [             {                 "id": "1",                 "author": "eat-sleep-code",                 "title": {                     "__cdata": "The first article."                 },                 "content": {                     "__cdata": "\n        This is my first article in my test site.\n      "                 },                 "createdate": "2014-05-09"             },             {                 "id": "2",                 "author": "eat-sleep-code",                 "title": {                     "__cdata": "The second article."                 },                 "content": {                     "__cdata": "\n        This is my second article in my test site.  This article's create date is actually earlier.\n      "                 },                 "createdate": "2014-05-08"             }         ]     } } 

Answer 1

The reverse argument should be a boolean value.

Assuming you don't have reverse set to true or false somewhere in your controller, you should replace

orderBy:'createdate':reverse 

with

orderBy:'createdate':true 

Demo

orderBy docs