From a39c6c10471446f8a1643d46b84194f13ad43c68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JonnyWong16 <9099342+JonnyWong16@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 16:03:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Improve sorting of json and xml export attributes

---
 plexpy/exporter.py |  6 ++++--
 plexpy/helpers.py  | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plexpy/exporter.py b/plexpy/exporter.py
index 487fc191..666ce0cd 100644
--- a/plexpy/exporter.py
+++ b/plexpy/exporter.py
@@ -1650,12 +1650,14 @@ class Export(object):
                     writer.writerows(csv_data)
 
             elif self.file_format == 'json':
-                json_data = json.dumps(result, indent=4, ensure_ascii=False, sort_keys=True)
+                json_data = json.dumps(helpers.sort_obj(result),
+                                       indent=4, ensure_ascii=False)
                 with open(filepath, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as outfile:
                     outfile.write(json_data)
 
             elif self.file_format == 'xml':
-                xml_data = helpers.dict_to_xml({self.media_type: result}, root_node='export', indent=4)
+                xml_data = helpers.dict_to_xml({self.media_type: helpers.sort_obj(result)},
+                                               root_node='export', indent=4)
                 with open(filepath, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as outfile:
                     outfile.write(xml_data)
 
diff --git a/plexpy/helpers.py b/plexpy/helpers.py
index abeabaca..80028e2f 100644
--- a/plexpy/helpers.py
+++ b/plexpy/helpers.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import cloudinary
 from cloudinary.api import delete_resources_by_tag
 from cloudinary.uploader import upload
 from cloudinary.utils import cloudinary_url
+from collections import OrderedDict
 import datetime
 from functools import reduce, wraps
 import hashlib
@@ -1244,6 +1245,31 @@ def sort_attrs(attr):
     return len(a), a
 
 
+def sort_obj(obj):
+    if isinstance(obj, list):
+        result_obj = []
+        for item in obj:
+            result_obj.append(sort_obj(item))
+    elif isinstance(obj, dict):
+        result_start = []
+        result_end = []
+        for k, v in obj.items():
+            if isinstance(v, list):
+                for item in v:
+                    if isinstance(item, dict):
+                        result_end.append([k, sort_obj(v)])
+                    else:
+                        result_start.append([k, sort_obj(v)])
+            else:
+                result_start.append([k, sort_obj(v)])
+
+        result_obj = OrderedDict(sorted(result_start) + sorted(result_end))
+    else:
+        result_obj = obj
+
+    return result_obj
+
+
 def get_attrs_to_dict(obj, attrs):
     d = {}