I have remote binding and sorting set up and I can get data to populate but I am having trouble setting up my controller action correctly to handle the grid's sorting.

I set the DataSourceUrl in javascript because I don't want the grid to bind immediately on page load. $("#gridFind").igGrid('option', 'dataSource', '@Url.Action("GetData")');

What I am looking for is how to get sort information in the controller action. I know that I can go through Request.QueryString but that does not seem ideal. As I show in the action I can grab the page and pageSize using the model binder but the sort comes through different "sort(columnName)='desc'".

What is the preferred way to handle this? I have not seen a sample of how to do remote sorting in a controller action method.

Here is my grid and controller action

@(Html.Infragistics().Grid<ExistingData>()

    .ID("gridFind")

    .AutoGenerateColumns(false)

    .Columns(column =>

        {

            column.For(fr => fr.FltRecId).Hidden(true);

            column.For(fr => fr.DocNumCd).HeaderText("Document #");

            column.For(fr => fr.TofDateTimeDt).HeaderText("Takeoff");

            column.For(fr => fr.TrnorgNameNm).HeaderText("Organization");

            column.For(fr => fr.PlatformType).HeaderText("Platform");

            column.For(fr => fr.SideNumSn).HeaderText("Side Num");

            column.For(fr => fr.Crew).HeaderText("Crew");

        })

    .Features(features =>

        {

            features

                .Sorting()

                .Type(OpType.Remote)

                .Mode(SortingMode.Single)

                .ColumnSettings(settings =>

                    {

                        settings.ColumnSetting().ColumnKey("TofDateTimeDt").AllowSorting(true).CurrentSortDirection("desc").FirstSortDirection("desc");

                        settings.ColumnSetting().ColumnKey("DocNumCd").AllowSorting(true).CurrentSortDirection("asc").FirstSortDirection("desc");

                        settings.ColumnSetting().ColumnKey("TrnorgNameNm").AllowSorting(true).FirstSortDirection("asc");

                        settings.ColumnSetting().ColumnKey("PlatformType").AllowSorting(true).FirstSortDirection("asc");

                        settings.ColumnSetting().ColumnKey("SideNumSn").AllowSorting(true).FirstSortDirection("asc");

                        settings.ColumnSetting().ColumnKey("Crew").AllowSorting(false);

                    });

            features

                .Paging()

                .Type(OpType.Remote)

                .RecordCountKey("TotalRecordCount");

            features

                .Resizing();

        })

    .ResponseDataKey("ExistingData")

    .Render()

)

        [HttpGet]

        public JsonResult GetData(

            int page,

            int pageSize)

        {

            int iTotalCount;

            IList<ExistingData> data = m_repository.GetExistingData(out iTotalCount);

            JsonResult result = new JsonResult

            {

                Data =

                    new

                    {

                        ExistingData = data.AsQueryable(),

                        TotalRecordCount = iTotalCount

                    },

                JsonRequestBehavior = JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet

            };

            return result;

        }