Kendo Sortable for Angular - Getting the new index position

Question

Frameworks used

• Angular and Kendo UI

What I'm doing

• I have a list of data obtained through Firestore

• It's already ordered based on a property in firestore

• I have Kendo Sortable installed and imported into my module

What's Working

• I can drag the item UIs around

What's Not Working

• As per the documentation, i'm writing to the console to see the index of the item

• It seems like the index position for onDragStart() appears to be correct

• onDragEnd() always appears as -1 (see attached screenshot) console log of dragging items about

Questions

1. My aim is to move the list items around and get their new index item. From there hopefully I can write a function to write back the new positions to the database. However, is there a way to determine the correct 'end' index?

Component.ts

import { Component, OnInit, ViewEncapsulation } from '@angular/core';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import { AngularFirestore, AngularFirestoreCollection } from 'angularfire2/firestore';
import { Router, ActivatedRoute } from '@angular/router';
import { DataEvent, DragDropEvent } from '@progress/kendo-angular-sortable';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-albums-list',
  templateUrl: './albums-list.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./albums-list.component.css'],
  encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None // testing
})

export class IssuesListComponent implements OnInit {

  private albumsCollection: AngularFirestoreCollection<any>;
  albums: Observable<any[]>;
  albumFolderId: string;


 //  KENDO TESTING

public events: string[][] = [[], []];

public onDataAdd(src: number, e: DataEvent): void {
  console.log(src, 'dataAdd', e.index);
}

public onDataRemove(src: number, e: DataEvent): void {
  console.log(src, 'dataRemove', e.index);
}

public onDragEnd(src: number, e: DragDropEvent): void {
  console.log(src, 'dragEnd', e.index);
}

public onDragOver(src: number, e: DragDropEvent): void {
  // Not logging due to the large number of events
}

public onDragStart(src: number, e: DragDropEvent): void {
  console.log(src, 'dragStart', e.index);
}

// private log(src: number, event: string, itemIndex: number): void {
//   this.events[src].push(`${event} - ${this.items[src][itemIndex]}`);
// }

  constructor(
    private readonly afs: AngularFirestore,
    private activatedRoute: ActivatedRoute,
    private router: Router
  ) { }


  ngOnInit() {

    // Look at the url for the Folder ID and set the local variable
    this.activatedRoute.params.forEach((urlParameters) => {
      this.albumFolderId = urlParameters['folderId'];

      // Return the issues list
      this.getAlbumData();

    });


  }


  getAlbumData() {

    this.albumCollection = this.afs.collection<any>(`/albumFolders/${this.albumFolderId}/albums`, ref => {
      return ref.orderBy('album_order');
    });

    // Get the data
    this.albums = this.albumCollection.snapshotChanges().map(actions => {

      return actions.map(a => {

        const data = a.payload.doc.data();

        const id = a.payload.doc.id;

        return { id, ...data };

      });
    });
  }
}

Component.html

 <kendo-sortable
            [navigatable]="true"
            [animation] = "true"
            [data]="albums | async"
            class="list__ul"
            itemClass="list__li"
            activeItemClass=""
            (dataAdd)="onDataAdd(i, $event)"
            (dataRemove)="onDataRemove(i, $event)"
            (dragEnd)="onDragEnd(i, $event)"
            (dragOver)="onDragOver(i, $event)"
            (dragStart)="onDragStart(i, $event)"
            >

            <ng-template let-item="item">         
                <h2 class="list__h2"> {{ item.album_title }} </h2>
                <span class="list__sub"> {{ item.album_date}} </span>
            </ng-template>

        </kendo-sortable>

Answer 1

I have done this by using a local variable element reference (e.g. #element). By passing this as parameter to the dragEnd event, it is possible to determine the new order.

Component HTML

<kendo-sortable #sortable [data]="stages" (dragEnd)="onDragEnd(sortable.data)">
    <ng-template let-stage="item">
        <div draggable="true">{{stage.name}}</div>
    </ng-template>
</kendo-sortable>

onDragEnd handler in Component .ts

public onDragEnd(data): void {
    let newOrder = data.map(o=>o.id);
}

Answer 2

If i understand ti concretely, u want a index of doped file?

In this Kendo Angular 2 example you can see that index you wanted (i added console log to show you where is what index):

 private handleDragAndDrop(): Subscription {
    const sub = new Subscription(() => {});
    let draggedItemIndex;

    document.querySelectorAll('.k-grid-content tr')
    .forEach(item => {
        this.renderer.setAttribute(item, 'draggable', true);
        const dragStart = Observable.fromEvent(item, 'dragstart');
        const dragOver = Observable.fromEvent(item, 'dragover');
        const drop = Observable.fromEvent(item, 'drop');

        sub.add(dragStart.subscribe(({target}) => {
            draggedItemIndex = target.rowIndex;
            console.log("Drag start: " + target.rowIndex)
        }));

        sub.add(dragOver.subscribe((e: any) => e.preventDefault()));

        sub.add(drop.subscribe((e: any) => {
            e.preventDefault();
            const dataItem = this.gridData.data.splice(draggedItemIndex, 1)[0];
            const dropIndex = e.target.closest('tr').rowIndex;
            this.zone.run(() =>{
                console.log("Drag drop/stop: " + dropIndex)
                this.gridData.data.splice(dropIndex, 0, dataItem)
            }

            );
        }));
    });

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