def populate_records(self):
        if not hasattr(self, 'config'):
            self.configure()

        self._records = None
        objects = self.object_list
        objects = self.search(objects)
        objects = self.sort(objects)
        self._records = objects
        self.total_initial_record_count = len(self.object_list)
        self.unpaged_record_count = len(self._records)
Searches and sorts the original object list.  Even though these operations do not themselves
dataset/ETHPy150Open pivotal-energy-solutions/django-datatable-view/datatableview/datatables.py/Datatable.populate_records