Squashed commit of the following:

commit d9942b9
Author: benne238 <benne238@purdue.edu>
Date:   Wed Jan 27 21:05:25 2021 -0500

    removal of debugging lines

commit 02ab227
Author: benne238 <benne238@purdue.edu>
Date:   Wed Jan 27 21:04:33 2021 -0500

    fix for accounting for empty content in messages

commit 610bc86
Author: benne238 <benne238@purdue.edu>
Date:   Tue Jan 12 15:23:52 2021 -0500

    removal of queueDirectory testing code

commit 30d9cfe
Author: benne238 <benne238@purdue.edu>
Date:   Mon Jan 11 14:30:01 2021 -0500

    implementation of blank content handling

commit 2bd362c
Author: Justin Campbell <campb303@purdue.edu>
Date:   Wed Dec 30 15:13:54 2020 -0500

    Update Python requirements to fix Flask_JWT_Extended and PyJWT conflict

commit 38445fe
Merge: 0fd6f0a c20b9b8
Author: Campbell, Justin <campb303@purdue.edu>
Date:   Tue Dec 15 21:55:33 2020 -0500

    Merge pull request #154 from ECN/enhancement-persistent-filters-and-sorting

    Enhancement persistent filters and sorting

commit c20b9b8
Author: Justin Campbell <campb303@purdue.edu>
Date:   Tue Dec 15 21:54:39 2020 -0500

    Minor formatting

commit 2cccad2
Author: Tyler Jordan Wright <wrigh393@w2vm1.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date:   Fri Dec 11 13:09:17 2020 -0500

    Set autoResetFilters to false in order to stop filters from resetting on data change.

commit d842e2c
Author: Tyler Jordan Wright <wrigh393@w2vm1.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date:   Wed Dec 9 11:08:19 2020 -0500

    disabled autoResetSortBy to allow for sorting to persist when data changes.

commit 0fd6f0a
Author: Justin Campbell <campb303@w2vm4.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date:   Thu Dec 3 20:13:58 2020 -0500

    Update UI Snapshot

README.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # webqueue2
 A re-write of Purdue ECN's webqueue
 
-![UI Snapshot](./docs/UI%20Snapshots/UI-Snapshot%202020-09-22%20at%201.48.58%20PM.png)
+![UI Snapshot](./docs/UI%20Snapshots/UI-Snapshot%202020-12-03%20at%208.10.32%20PM.png)
 
 ## Stay Up To Date
 See what's being worked on with [the webqueue2 Project](https://github.itap.purdue.edu/ECN/webqueue2/projects/).

api/ECNQueue.py

@@ -263,6 +263,12 @@ def __parseSections(self) -> list:
         for assignment in assignementLsit:
             sections.append(assignment)
 
+        # Checks for empty content within an item and returns and
+        if contentEnd <= contentStart:
+            blankInitialMessage = self.__initialMessageParsing([""])
+            sections.append(blankInitialMessage)
+            return sections
+
         # Checks for Directory Identifiers
         if self.__rawItem[contentStart] == "\n" and self.__rawItem[contentStart + 1].startswith("\t"):
 
@@ -1349,4 +1355,4 @@ def loadQueues() -> list:
     for queue in getValidQueues():
         queues.append(Queue(queue))
 
-    return queues
+    return queues

api/requirements.txt

@@ -1,22 +1,14 @@
-aniso8601==8.0.0
-astroid==2.4.2
-click==7.1.2
-Flask==1.1.2
-Flask-RESTful==0.3.8
-Flask-JWT-Extended==3.24.1
-gunicorn==20.0.4
-isort==4.3.21
-itsdangerous==1.1.0
-Jinja2==2.11.2
-lazy-object-proxy==1.4.3
-MarkupSafe==1.1.1
-mccabe==0.6.1
-pylint==2.5.3
-python-dateutil==2.8.1
-python-dotenv==0.15.0
-pytz==2020.1
-six==1.15.0
-toml==0.10.1
-typed-ast==1.4.1
-Werkzeug==1.0.1
-wrapt==1.12.1
+# See: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install/#example-requirements-file
+
+# General Utilities
+gunicorn
+pipdeptree
+pylint
+
+# API 
+python-dotenv
+Flask-RESTful
+python-dateutil
+Flask-JWT-Extended
+# Prevent upgrade to 2.x until Flask-JWT-Extended is updated to support it
+PyJWT == 1.*

src/components/ItemTable/ItemTable.js

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import { ArrowDownward, ArrowUpward } from "@material-ui/icons";
 export default function ItemTable({ data, rowCanBeSelected }) {
     const [selectedRow, setSelectedRow] = useState({ queue: null, number: null});
 
-    const theme = useTheme(); 
+    const theme = useTheme();
     const useStyles = makeStyles({
         // Fully visible for active icons
         activeSortIcon: {
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ export default function ItemTable({ data, rowCanBeSelected }) {
         {
             columns,
             data,
+            autoResetSortBy: false,
+            autoResetFilters: false,
             defaultColumn: {
                 Filter: ({ column: { Header, setFilter } }) => {
                     return (
@@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ export default function ItemTable({ data, rowCanBeSelected }) {
                 }
             },
         },
-        useFilters, useFlexLayout, useSortBy,
+        useFilters, useFlexLayout, useSortBy, 
     );
     const { getTableProps, getTableBodyProps, headerGroups, rows, prepareRow, } = tableInstance;
 
@@ -136,7 +138,7 @@ export default function ItemTable({ data, rowCanBeSelected }) {
                                 classes={{ root: (isSelected && rowCanBeSelected) ? classes.rowSelected : classes.bandedRows }}
                                 {...row.getRowProps()} >
                                 {row.cells.map(cell => (
-                                    <TableCell 
+                                    <TableCell
                                         classes={{ root: classes.columnBorders }}
                                         {...cell.getCellProps()}
                                     >