From 6708094ed6bfc61472f9660a714cbea26c3df672 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: IanCa <ianrcallanan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 19:06:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix sorting for hed string context

---
 hed/errors/error_reporter.py | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hed/errors/error_reporter.py b/hed/errors/error_reporter.py
index cb1a959d5..836ac2c4f 100644
--- a/hed/errors/error_reporter.py
+++ b/hed/errors/error_reporter.py
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
     ErrorContext.SIDECAR_KEY_NAME,
     ErrorContext.ROW,
     ErrorContext.COLUMN,
-    ErrorContext.HED_STRING,
     ErrorContext.SCHEMA_SECTION,
     ErrorContext.SCHEMA_TAG,
     ErrorContext.SCHEMA_ATTRIBUTE,
@@ -32,6 +31,10 @@
     ErrorContext.ROW,
 ]
 
+hed_string_sort_list = [
+    ErrorContext.HED_STRING
+]
+
 def _register_error_function(error_type, wrapper_func):
     if error_type in error_functions:
         raise KeyError(f"{error_type} defined more than once.")
@@ -186,10 +189,13 @@ def push_error_context(self, context_type, context):
 
         """
         if context is None:
+            from hed import HedString
             if context_type in int_sort_list:
                 context = 0
+            elif context_type in hed_string_sort_list:
+                context = HedString("")
             else:
-                context_type = ""
+                context = ""
         self.error_context.append((context_type, context))
 
     def pop_error_context(self):
@@ -446,10 +452,13 @@ def sort_issues(issues, reverse=False):
     Returns:
         list: The sorted list of issues."""
     def _get_keys(d):
+        from hed import HedString
         result = []
         for key in default_sort_list:
             if key in int_sort_list:
                 result.append(d.get(key, -1))
+            elif key in hed_string_sort_list:
+                result.append(d.get(key, HedString("")))
             else:
                 result.append(d.get(key, ""))
         return tuple(result)