Contacts without addresses are slotted into list randomly after sorting by address

[w-yeehong]

Expected Outcome

After sorting the list of contacts by address, new contacts without addresses are added to the bottom of the list.

Description

After sorting the list of contacts by address, new contacts without addresses are slotted into the list, possibly randomly. This makes it difficult to locate the newly added entry.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Execute sort -c 2.

2. Execute add -c n/aaa.

3. Execute add -c n/AAA.

4. Execute add -c n/bbb.

5. Execute add -c n/BBB.

6. The following order results. Expected result should be 1. aaa, 2. AAA, 3. bbb, 4. BBB.

[nus-se-bot]

Team's Response

This is an expected behaviour. We have also stated in the UG that when adding contacts with missing fields, there will be a placeholder address called "Address not yet added" . These placeholder addresses are considered addresses and will be sorted by alphabetical order. Furthermore, I believe that this is a matter of user preference on whether the contacts with "Address not yet added" placeholders should be all on top or at the bottom. We chose to keep it as a cluster and arrange them alphabetically as if the user is trying to find all users with "address not yet added", they will know where to find them instinctively since they know this command sorts the address by alphabetical order.

Furthermore, this can be solved by the fixing the UG as per a similar issue (4109) that was accepted.

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