Select2 AJAX doesn't update when changed programatically - jquery-select2

Question

I have a Select2 that fetches its data remotely, but I would also like to set its value programatically. When trying to change it programatically, it updates the value of the select, and Select2 notices the change, but it doesn't update its label.
https://jsfiddle.net/Glutnix/ut6xLnuq/
$('#set-email-manually').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
// THIS DOESN'T WORK PROPERLY!?
$('#user-email-address') // Select2 select box
.empty()
.append('<option selected value="test#test.com">test#test.com</option>');
$('#user-email-address').trigger('change');
});
I've tried a lot of different things, but I can't get it going. I suspect it might be a bug, so have filed an issue on the project.

Answer 1

reading the docs I think maybe you are setting the options in the wrong way, you may use
data: {}
instead of
data, {}
and set the options included inside {} separated by "," like this:
{
option1: value1,
option2: value2
}
so I have changed this part of your code:
$('#user-email-address').select2('data', {
id: 'test#test.com',
label: 'test#test.com'
});
to:
$('#user-email-address').select2({'data': {
id: 'test#test.com',
label: 'test#test.com'
}
});
and the label is updating now.
updated fiddle
hope it helps.
Edit:
I correct myself, it seems like you can pass the data the way you were doing data,{}
the problem is with the data template..
reading the docs again it seems that the data template should be {id, text} while your ajax result is {id, email}, the set manual section does not work since it tries to return the email from an object of {id, text} with no email. so you either need to change your format selection function to return the text as well instead of email only or remap the ajax result.
I prefer remapping the ajax results and go the standard way since this will make your placeholder work as well which is not working at the moment because the placeholder template is {id,text} also it seems.
so I have changed this part of your code:
processResults: function(data, params) {
var payload = {
results: $.map(data, function(item) {
return { id: item.email, text: item.email };
})
};
return payload;
}
and removed these since they are not needed anymore:
templateResult: function(result) {
return result.email;
},
templateSelection: function(selection) {
return selection.email;
}
updated fiddle: updated fiddle

Answer 2

For me, without AJAX worked like this:
var select = $('.user-email-address');
var option = $('<option></option>').
attr('selected', true).
text(event.target.value).
val(event.target.id);
/* insert the option (which is already 'selected'!) into the select */
option.appendTo(select);
/* Let select2 do whatever it likes with this */
select.trigger('change');

Answer 3

Kevin-Brown on GitHub replied and said:
The issue is that your templating methods are not falling back to text if email is not specified. The data objects being passed in should have the text of the <option> tag in the text property.
It turns out the result parameter to these two methods have more data in them than just the AJAX response!
templateResult: function(result) {
console.log('templateResult', result);
return result.email || result.text;
},
templateSelection: function(selection) {
console.log('templateSelection', selection);
return selection.email || selection.id;
},
Here's the fully functional updated fiddle.