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#3287 closed feature (invalid)

Opened August 25, 2008 07:20AM UTC

Closed October 12, 2009 11:36PM UTC

[autocomplete] Add a handler for non-matched events

Reported by: wichert Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: 1.3
Component: plugin Version: 1.2.6
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

A pattern I am using a lot is that I have a list of record with an id and a title. Autocompletion happens on the title and when an entry is selected I use the result handler to store the associated id in a hidden input field, which gets processed by my backend. The html looks like this:

<input type="hidden" name="brand" value="" id="realBrandValue"/>
<label for="brandCompleter" id="articleBrand">Merk
  <input type="Text" name="brandCompleter"/>
</label>

and the javascript looks like this:

    $("label#articleBrand input").each(function() {
        var brandid = $("input#realBrandValue")[0].value;

        if (brandid) {
            for (var i=0; i!=brands.length; i++) {
              if (brands[i].value==brandid) {
                   $(this).attr("value", brands[i].title);
                   break;
               }
           }
       }
    }).autocomplete(brands, {
        autoFill : true,
        mustMatch : false,
        formatMatch: function (row, i, total) { return row.title; },
        formatResult: function (row) { return row.title; },
        formatItem: function (row, i, total) { return row.title; },
    }).result(function(event, row) {
      $("input#realBrandValue").attr("value", row.value);
    });


For situations where users must be able to use unknown values this does not work since the result handler is not called for un-matched data input. What I am missing for that situation is a handler that allows me to catch that situation so I can update my hidden input field.

Looking at the code I see two ways to accomplish this:

  • also trigger the result handler if selected evaluatues to

false at the beginning of selectCurrent(). This may have

backwards compatibility problems.

  • add a new handler for this case and trigger that from

selectCurrent at the point where it current does a return false.

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Change History (2)

Changed August 25, 2008 07:35AM UTC by wichert comment:1

I noticed that the change handler for the input element is always fired before autocomplete fires the result handler, so as a workaround I always do the non-matching code on change and override that in the result handler later. Not very efficient, but it gets the job down.

Changed October 12, 2009 11:36PM UTC by dmethvin comment:2

resolution: → invalid
status: newclosed

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