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Three column headers do nothing when you click them, however many times, until another column of the same table has been sorted:

Where Header
Group → Peers, and Accessible Peers Name
Routes Metric
Okta SSO → domain verification Domain

To reproduce: open a Group → Peers and click the Name header, the list does not reorder. Now click Address, then Name, and Name sorting works from then on.

Root cause

Those three tables are the only ones in the app whose default sort has more than one column:

  • MinimalPeersTable.tsx:105-118: [connected desc, last_seen desc, name asc]
  • RouteTable.tsx:118-127: [network_id desc, metric desc]
  • DomainVerificationTable.tsx:45-54: [is_current desc, name desc]

In each case the dead header is the last entry. A header click calls column.toggleSorting(), and its non-multi branch in @tanstack/table-core 8.21.3 (RowSorting.ts) only replaces the sort when the clicked column is not the last entry of the current sort:

if (old?.length && existingIndex !== old.length - 1) sortAction = 'replace'
else if (existingSorting)                            sortAction = 'toggle'
else                                                 sortAction = 'replace'

name is the last entry, so every click toggles it in place: only its desc flips, behind the connected/last_seen sorts, and the visible order never changes. Clicking another column hits the replace branch, which collapses the sort to a single entry, and from then on name is not last anymore and works. That's why the bug looks intermittent and is easy to miss when testing.

Columns earlier in a default sort and tables with a single-column default sort are not affected, so it's only these three headers.

PeersTable.tsx:181-193 already works around this for one column, with onSort and a manual table.setSorting([{ id: "last_seen", desc: !desc }]). This PR generalises that to every header, and the override can be removed separately.

Changes

  • DataTableContext exposes the tanstack table instance to anything rendered inside DataTable, like the existing ServerPaginationProvider. DataTableHeader is rendered from ~210 column definitions across 47 files, so passing table as a prop is not realistic, and only one of those call sites takes it from the header render props today. useDataTable() throws outside a DataTable as useServerPagination() does, since every header is rendered by DataTable.
  • In DataTableHeader, a click now replaces the sort with the clicked column alone, whatever its position.
  • The direction comes from whether the column already leads the sort, and not from column.getIsSorted(). name reports "asc" while it sits at the end of the default sort, so using it would start with a descending sort on a list the user sees as unsorted. This also removes a second direction computation that ran after the sort had been applied, so the local sort and the server-side setSort can't disagree anymore.

Header clicks never passed tanstack's multi flag and there's no shift-click multi-sort in the app (no enableMultiSort, isMultiSortEvent or maxMultiSortColCount in the tree), so forcing a single-column sort removes nothing a user can reach.

Verification

src/components/table/DataTableHeader.test.tsx covers four cases, including the reported bug checked on the rendered row order and not only on the sorting state. With DataTableHeader.tsx reverted to main, two of them fail with the sorting stuck at [connected desc, last_seen desc, name desc] and the row order unchanged.

Locally on node 24 like unit-tests.yml, on top of main at f52dab50:

npm run test:unit
 Test Files  55 passed (55)
      Tests  769 passed (769)

prettier is clean on the four touched files, eslint reports no errors in them (only the React Compiler's "incompatible library" notice on useReactTable, which DataTable.tsx already gets on main) and tsc --noEmit reports nothing in them.

In CI on 201fae05 the unit tests and the build pass. The Playwright jobs stop at the registry login because runs from a fork get no secrets.

Issue ticket number and link

N/A, reported internally, no public issue.

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Internal bug fix in the table sorting, nothing user-facing to document.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Clicking a column header now sorts by that column alone. A newly selected column starts in ascending order; clicking the leading sorted column again switches its direction. Server-side sorting uses the selected direction.
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    • Added coverage for replacing the sort with a non-leading column, toggling the leading column’s direction, the resulting row order, and server-side sort direction.

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DataTable provides its TanStack table instance through React context. DataTableHeader uses that instance to replace the current sort with the selected column and computed direction. Tests cover client-side sorting and server-pagination direction.

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Context and sorting flow

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Context provider wiring
src/components/table/DataTableContext.tsx, src/components/table/DataTable.tsx
Defines the table context and hook, then wraps DataTable content with DataTableInstanceProvider, passing the current table instance.
Header sorting and validation
src/components/table/DataTableHeader.tsx, src/components/table/DataTableHeader.test.tsx
Uses the table instance to replace sorting with the selected column and computed direction. Tests cover sorting state, row order, and the direction sent to server pagination.

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Import Table from @tanstack/react-table to ensure stability with strict package managers.

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Silex force-pushed the fix/table-header-sort-noop branch from 6546379 to ee92853 Compare September 2, 2026 14:23
@Silex Silex changed the title fix: header sort is a no-op on first click for default-sorted columns fix: a default multi-sort's last column will not sort until another is clicked Sep 2, 2026
@Silex Silex changed the title fix: a default multi-sort's last column will not sort until another is clicked fix: Name, Metric and Domain column headers do nothing when clicked Sep 2, 2026
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@heisbrot can you take a look at this, or point me at whoever should? You've been in src/components/table/ most recently.

The checks all sit at action_required because runs from a fork need a maintainer to start them, so CI never ran on this PR.

The bug: the Name header on the peers tables, Metric on Routes and Domain on the Okta domain list do nothing when clicked. Each one is the last entry of its table's default multi-sort, and there column.toggleSorting() toggles the entry in place instead of replacing the sort. Sorting by any other column collapses the sort to one entry and the header works again, which makes it easy to miss.

PeersTable.tsx:180-195 already works around it by hand for last_seen via onSort. This generalises it to every header, so the override can go. It needs the table instance inside the header cell, hence the small context. I can do it differently if you'd rather not add one.

The new test checks the rendered row order and fails on main, and the unit suite passes locally on node 20.

Silex added 3 commits October 1, 2026 15:30
Header cells only receive their column, not the table instance, so they
cannot replace the table's whole sort. Add a lightweight context that
exposes the table to anything rendered inside DataTable, mirroring the
existing ServerPaginationProvider pattern.

DataTableHeader is rendered from roughly 200 column definitions across 46
files, so passing the table down as a prop is not practical; only one of
those call sites currently pulls it out of the header render props.
Clicking a header called column.toggleSorting(), which in tanstack's
normal (non-multi) mode only replaces the sort when the clicked column is
not the last entry of the current sort (existingIndex !== old.length - 1);
otherwise it toggles that entry in place. The peers tables default to
[connected, last_seen, name], so clicking Name only flipped its desc
behind the dominant connected/last_seen sorts. The visible order never
changed, however many times it was clicked, and only started responding
once a different column had been clicked and collapsed the sort to a
single entry.

Use the table instance from context to setSorting() to a single column,
forcing a replace regardless of the column's position. Falls back to the
previous toggleSorting() when no provider is present.

Take the direction from whether the column already leads the sort rather
than from column.getIsSorted(). Name reports "asc" while it sits at the
bottom of the default sort, so deriving the direction from it would open
with a descending sort on a list the user reads as unsorted. This also
collapses a second, duplicate direction computation that ran after the
sort had already been applied.
Without the table instance in context, the header always passed desc=false
to column.toggleSorting(), which forced an ascending sort on every click and
reported "asc" to server-side pagination. Fall back to flipping the column's
own direction, as the header did before it learned to replace the sort.
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@heisbrot @SunsetDrifter friendly ping. It's rebased onto current main (f52dab50) and the bug is still there: clicking Name in Group → Peers, Metric in Routes or Domain in the Okta domain table does nothing until another column has been sorted.

Since the last ping:

It still needs a maintainer to approve the workflow run (runs from a fork sit at action_required, so CI never ran here), and an opinion on the approach: a small context exposing the table instance so the header can replace the sort. If you prefer a narrower fix I'll rework it.

Comment thread src/components/table/DataTableContext.tsx Outdated
Comment thread src/components/table/DataTableHeader.tsx
Every DataTableHeader is rendered by DataTable, which always provides the
table instance, so the hook never returned null and the
column.toggleSorting() fallback was dead code. Rename the hook to
useDataTable(), make it throw outside the provider like
useServerPagination() does, and drop the fallback with its test.
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Thanks! 👍

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