What antd table API provides is this

       date: {
            title: "Date",
            dataIndex: 'date',
            key: 'date',
            width: 85,
            showSorterTooltip: { target: 'full-header' },
            sortDirections: ['descend'],
            sorter: (a, b) => a.date - b.date,
        },

and what it does is that it sorts data that is already fetched and in the table.
But I need to fetch data from API whenever sorting direction changes, so I need to somehow know whether user has selected the soring column or not. From what I see there is no way to do it with table API.
Any workarounds ?