improvement(builder.orderBy()): OrderBy now accepts literal templates…

… to identify nested keys of an

package.json

@@ -102,31 +102,31 @@
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@babel/core": "^7.5.0",
-    "@semantic-release/changelog": "^3.0.4",
-    "@semantic-release/git": "^7.0.16",
+    "@semantic-release/changelog": "^6.0.1",
+    "@semantic-release/git": "^10.0.1",
     "@types/chai": "^4.0.4",
     "@types/chai-as-promised": "^7.1.0",
     "@types/mocha": "^5.2.5",
     "@types/sinon": "^7.0.13",
     "babel-plugin-lodash": "^3.3.4",
     "chai": "^4.0.2",
     "chai-as-promised": "^7.0.0",
-    "commitizen": "^4.0.3",
+    "commitizen": "^3.0.0",
     "coveralls": "^3.0.4",
-    "mocha": "^6.1.4",
-    "nyc": "^14.1.1",
+    "mocha": "^9.1.3",
+    "nyc": "^15.1.0",
     "rollup": "^1.19.3",
     "rollup-plugin-babel": "^4.3.3",
     "rollup-plugin-commonjs": "^10.0.1",
     "rollup-plugin-node-resolve": "^5.2.0",
     "rollup-plugin-typescript": "^1.0.0",
-    "semantic-release": "^15.13.18",
+    "semantic-release": "^18.0.0",
     "sinon": "^7.3.2",
     "source-map-support": "^0.5.0",
-    "ts-node": "^8.3.0",
+    "ts-node": "^10.4.0",
     "tslint": "^5.18.0",
     "tslint-config-airbnb": "^5.11.1",
-    "typedoc": "^0.15.3",
-    "typescript": "^3.5.3"
+    "typedoc": "^0.22.8",
+    "typescript": "^4.4.4"
   }
 }

src/builder.ts

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import { Clause } from './clause';
 import { RemoveProperties } from './clauses/remove';
 import { Union } from './clauses/union';
 import { ReturnOptions } from './clauses/return';
-import { StringKeyOf, TypedDictionary, ValueOf } from './types';
+import {NestedKeyOf, StringKeyOf, TypedDictionary, ValueOf} from './types';
 import { Query } from './query';
 import { Selector } from './selector';
 import { ReturnObject, Selectable } from './clauses/returnObject';
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ export interface WrapperClause {
   new(clause: Set): Clause;
 }
 
+
 /**
  * @internal
  */
@@ -550,7 +551,7 @@ export abstract class Builder
    * @returns {Q}
    */
   orderBy(
-    fields: StringKeyOf<G> | (StringKeyOf<G> | OrderConstraint)[] | OrderConstraints,
+    fields: StringKeyOf<G> | NestedKeyOf<G> | (StringKeyOf<G> | NestedKeyOf<G> | OrderConstraint)[] | OrderConstraints,
     dir?: Direction) {
     return this.continueChainClause(new OrderBy(fields, dir));
   }

src/types.ts

@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ export type StringKeyOf<T extends {
 export type TypedDictionary<K extends string, V = any> = {
   [key in K]? : V
 };
+
+export type NestedKeyOf<M> = `${string & keyof M}.${string & keyof M[keyof M]}`;