In your example above, expiry
is a String
, not a DateTime object. You have a few options here, depending on what you want to achieve.
The easiest solution would be to use String’s built in compareTo
method, which allows sorting Strings. Those timestamps are already in a sortable format, so this would work:
products.sort((a,b) {
return a.compareTo(b);
});
Or more concise:
products.sort((a,b) => a.compareTo(b));
This is pretty basic. Like pskink mentioned in the comment, building on this you could convert the Strings to actual DateTime objects.
DateTime expiryAsDateTime = DateTime.parse(expiry);
DateTime
also has a built in compareTo
method, so the code snippet above would work with DateTimes as well as Strings.
If you want to reverse the order, just swap a
and b
.