Disable 3rd state in Angular Material MatSortable

Question

There are three states in sort direction of MatSortable. Is there a way to disable the 3rd state? It has 'asc' | 'desc' | '', id like to only have 'asc' | 'desc' available. I'm currently filtering the sort direction, but I'm wondering if this is intuitive enough from a users perspective to not seem like a bug even though the header does display an arrow with current sort direction(see images below).

• material.angular.io

• mat-table

Oninit lifecycle hook I'm setting a sort default, thought setting disableClear to true would fix this but no-go. Any help appreciated!

defaultSort: MatSortable = {
  id: 'displayName',
  start: 'asc',
  /**
   * Whether to disable the user from clearing the sort by finishing the sort direction cycle.
   * May be overriden by the MatSortable's disable clear input.
   */
  disableClear: True
};

ngOnInit() {
  this.sort.sort(this.defaultSort);

  this.sort.sortChange.pipe(
    filter(sort => !!sort.direction),
    switchMap(sort => {
      // makes API request only with an actual direction.
    })
  );
}

No sort direction:

With sort directions:

Answer 1

I'm a little unclear on your code, but it's something similar to this:

You have this on your component

@ViewChild(MatSort) sort: MatSort;

and

  ngOnInit() {
    ....
    this.dataSource.sort = this.sort;
  }

add this line after defining the sort

this.sort.disableClear = true;

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