Autocomplete in Jqgrid returns Data from Server but dont know to put in View - jquery-ui

Question

This is my first post. stackoverflow is a wonderful place for developers. Here is my issue.
I am trying to use Autocomplete in JqGrid Edit Form. i successfully retrieved data from server using ajax call but dont know how to display it in the view. below is my code.
FrontEnd Code:
colModel :[
{name:'prf_articlename', index:'prf_articlename', width:90, editable:true, edittype:'text',
editoptions: {
dataInit:function(e){
$(e).autocomplete({
source: function(request, response,term) {
var param = request.term;
$.ajax({
url: '/Myelclass/AutoCompleteServlet.do?term='+param+"&action="+"artname",
success: function (data) {
response($.map(data, function(item) {
return {
label: item.label,
};
}));//END Success
},
});//END AJAX
},
minLength: 2,
});//END AUOTOCOMPLETE
}//END Dataint
}//END Dataint
},
BackEnd Code:
String term = request.getParameter("term");
List<AutoComplete> articlelist = prfbo.getArticleNameinEditGrid(term);
System.out.println("List Value " +articlelist.size());
JSONArray jsonOrdertanArray = JSONArray.fromObject(articlelist);
System.out.println(jsonOrdertanArray);
out.println(jsonOrdertanArray);
Any one help on this???

Answer 1

This is what I personally use in my project:
Inside colModel:
dataInit: function (elem) { NameSearch(elem) }},
The function:
function NameSearch(elem) {
$(elem).autocomplete({ source: '/Controller/NameSearch',
minLength: 2, autosearch: true,
select: function (event, ui) {
$(elem).val(ui.item.value);
$(elem).focus().trigger({ type: 'keypress', charCode: 13 });
}
})//$(elem).autocomplete
$(elem).keypress(function (e) {
if (!e) e = window.event;
if (e.keyCode == '13') {
setTimeout(function () { $(elem).autocomplete('close'); }, 500);
return false;
}
})//$(elem).keypress(function (e){
} //function NameSearch(elem) {
I'm also dealing with an Enter key press as well in the above function.

Answer 2

here is the complete code for my Autocomplete in jqgrid Edit form..
colModel :[
{name:'name', index:'name', width:90, align:'center', editable:true, hidden: false, edittype:'text',
editoptions:{
dataInit:function (elem) {
$(elem).autocomplete({
minLength: 2,
source: function(request, response,term) {
var param = request.term; //values we enter to filter autocomplete
$.ajax({
url: "myurl",
dataType: "json",
type:"GET",
success: function (data) {
response($.map(data, function(item) {
return {
//can add number of attributes here
id: item.id,
shform: item.shortform,
value: item.name,
clr : item.color, //here apart from name and id i am adding other values too
size: item.size,
remar:item.remarks,
subs: item.subs,
selec:item.selec ,
};
}));//END Response
},//END Success
});//END AJAX
},
select: function( event, ui ) {
// setting values to textbox in jqgrid edit form based on selected values
$('#textbox1').val(ui.item.id);
$('#textbox2').val(ui.item.shform);
$('#textbox3').val(ui.item.clr);
$('#textbox4').val(ui.item.size);
$('#textbox5').val(ui.item.sizeremar);
$('#textbox6').val(ui.item.subs);
$('#textbox7').val(ui.item.selec);
$('#textbox8').val(ui.item.selp);
}
});
$('.ui-autocomplete').css('zIndex',1000); // if autocomplete has misalignment so we are manually setting it
}
}, editrules :{required : true},
formoptions:{rowpos: 1, colpos: 2}
},
........
]
server code :
String term = request.getParameter("term");
List<ArticleDetails> articlelist = prfbo.getPrfArticleName(term); //DB call via BO and DAO class
System.out.println("List Value " +articlelist.size());
JSONArray jsonOrdertanArray = JSONArray.fromObject(articlelist);
System.out.println(jsonOrdertanArray);
out.println(jsonOrdertanArray);
hope some one find it useful.