From f36a20d6fd1cb45ef493211c3699c77b68f81ab8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eevee <git@veekun.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 00:06:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] ACTUALLY order threads in a forum by last-post time.

---
 splinext/forum/controllers/forum.py | 9 +++++----
 splinext/forum/model/__init__.py    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/splinext/forum/controllers/forum.py b/splinext/forum/controllers/forum.py
index f2eb476..a27dd81 100644
--- a/splinext/forum/controllers/forum.py
+++ b/splinext/forum/controllers/forum.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from pylons import cache, config, request, response, session, tmpl_context as c,
 from pylons.controllers.util import abort, redirect
 from pylons.decorators.secure import authenticate_form
 from routes import request_config
-from sqlalchemy.orm import joinedload
+from sqlalchemy.orm import aliased, contains_eager, joinedload
 from sqlalchemy.orm.exc import NoResultFound
 from sqlalchemy.sql import func
 import wtforms
@@ -149,11 +149,12 @@ class ForumController(BaseController):
         c.write_thread_form = WriteThreadForm()
 
         # nb: This will never show post-less threads.  Oh well!
+        last_post = aliased(forum_model.Post)
         threads_q = c.forum.threads \
-            .join(forum_model.Thread.last_post) \
-            .order_by(forum_model.Post.posted_time.desc()) \
+            .join((last_post, forum_model.Thread.last_post)) \
+            .order_by(last_post.posted_time.desc()) \
             .options(
-                joinedload('last_post'),
+                contains_eager(forum_model.Thread.last_post, alias=last_post),
                 joinedload('last_post.author'),
             )
         c.num_threads = threads_q.count()
diff --git a/splinext/forum/model/__init__.py b/splinext/forum/model/__init__.py
index b8f9225..64cfda5 100644
--- a/splinext/forum/model/__init__.py
+++ b/splinext/forum/model/__init__.py
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Index('thread_position', Post.thread_id, Post.position, unique=True)
 
 
 # XXX sort by time, how?
-Forum.threads = relation(Thread, order_by=Thread.id.desc(), lazy='dynamic', backref='forum')
+Forum.threads = relation(Thread, lazy='dynamic', backref='forum')
 
 Thread.posts = relation(Post, order_by=Post.position.asc(), lazy='dynamic', backref='thread')
 Thread.first_post = relation(Post, primaryjoin=and_(Post.thread_id == Thread.id, Post.position == 1), foreign_keys=[Post.thread_id], innerjoin=True, uselist=False, viewonly=True)
-- 
2.7.4