[PrimeNG] PrimeNG table is not honoring the sort column and sort order specified when groupRowsBy is added.

[meghashivaswamy]

Describe the bug

[PrimeNG] PrimeNG table is not honoring the sort column and sort order specified when groupRowsBy is added.

Steps to reproduce:

1. in p-table have GroupRowsBy="representative.name" and sortfield as "representative.sortOrder"
2. Login to the application and verify the table content

Expected Result: The data in the table must be sorted based on the "representative.sortOrder".
Actual result: The data in the table must be sorted based on the "representative.name".

Environment

"primeng": "16.0.2"
https://stackblitz.com/edit/lwfasm?file=src%2Fapp%2Fdemo%2Ftable-rowspan-grouping-demo.html,src%2Fdomain%2Fcustomer.ts

Reproducer

https://stackblitz.com/edit/lwfasm?file=src%2Fapp%2Fdemo%2Ftable-rowspan-grouping-demo.html,src%2Fdomain%2Fcustomer.ts

Angular version

v16.0 [Exact version not noted]

PrimeNG version

16.0.2

Build / Runtime

Angular CLI App

Language

TypeScript

Node version (for AoT issues node --version)

v16.16. 0 [Exact version not noted]

Browser(s)

Chrome

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Steps to reproduce:

1. in p-table have GroupRowsBy="representative.name" and sortfield as "representative.sortOrder"
2. Login to the application

Expected Result: The data in the table must be sorted based on the "representative.sortOrder".
Actual result: The data in the table must be sorted based on the "representative.name".

Expected behavior

The rows must be sorted based on the SortField instead of 'groupRowsBy' column.