Angular Material Autocomplete With $http Call
What i'm trying to do is an Angular Material autocomplete (md-autocomplete) with data dynamically retrieved from an AJAX call to my REST API. Unfortunately I get only indeterminate
Solution 1:
(function() {
'use strict';
angular
.module('MyApp')
.controller('DemoCtrl', DemoCtrl);
function DemoCtrl($http) {
var self = this;
self.data = null;
self.selectedItem = null;
self.searchText = null;
self.querySearch = function (query) {
$http.get('http://www.omdbapi.com/?s=' + escape(query))
.then(function(result) {
self.data = result.data.Search;
return result.data.Search;
});
}
}
})();
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html >
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>$http md-Autocomplete</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500,700,400italic">
<link rel='stylesheet prefetch' href='https://cdn.gitcdn.xyz/cdn/angular/bower-material/v1.0.0-rc4/angular-material.css'>
</head>
<body>
<div class="autocompletedemoFloatingLabel" ng-controller="DemoCtrl as ctrl" ng-app="MyApp" layout="column" ng-cloak="">
<md-content class="md-padding">
<form name="searchForm" ng-submit="$event.preventDefault()">
<div layout-gt-sm="row">
<md-input-container flex="">
<label>Name</label>
<input type="text">
</md-input-container>
<md-autocomplete md-floating-label="Favorite movie"
flex=""
md-item-text="item.Title"
md-items="item in ctrl.data"
md-search-text-change="ctrl.querySearch(ctrl.searchText)"
md-search-text="ctrl.searchText"
md-selected-item="ctrl.selectedItem"
md-no-cache="ctrl.noCache"
md-input-maxlength="30"
md-input-minlength="2"
md-input-name="autocompleteField"
required="">
<md-item-template>
<span md-highlight-text="ctrl.searchText">{{item.Title}}</span>
</md-item-template>
<div ng-messages="searchForm.autocompleteField.$error" ng-if="searchForm.autocompleteField.$touched">
<div ng-message="required">You <b>must</b> have a favorite movie.</div>
<div ng-message="minlength">Your entry is not long enough.</div>
<div ng-message="maxlength">Your entry is too long.</div>
</div>
</md-autocomplete>
</div>
</form>
</md-content>
</div>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.6/angular.js'></script>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.6/angular-animate.min.js'></script>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.6/angular-route.min.js'></script>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.6/angular-aria.min.js'></script>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.6/angular-messages.min.js'></script>
<script src='https://cdn.gitcdn.xyz/cdn/angular/bower-material/v1.0.0-rc4/angular-material.js'></script>
<script src='https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/t-114/assets-cache.js'></script>
</body>
</html>
Finally I have done it. Here is the solution.
Solution 2:
I struggled with this as well. I end up doing something like this:
$scope.querySearch=function(searchTerm) {
return $http({
url:"http://mysearch.api?keyword="+searchTerm,
method:"GET"
})
.then(function(res) {
return res.data;
}
}
Problem for me was that md-autocomplete need the result to be an array, where the response from $http is an object. I hope this help someone else!!
Solution 3:
You can use Angularjs promises to get data from $http call.
<body>
<form name="searchForm" ng-submit="searchForm.$valid && submit()" novalidate>
<md-autocomplete flex-gt-sm="35"
required md-input-name="autocompleteField"
md-input-maxlength="80"
md-selected-item="selectedItem"
md-search-text="formdata.searchText"
md-items="item in querySearch(formdata.searchText)"
md-item-text="item.display"
md-min-length="0"
md-floating-label="Get Values">
<md-item-template>
<span md-highlight-text="formdata.searchText" md-highlight-flags="^i">{{item.display}}</span>
</md-item-template>
<md-not-found>
No data matching "{{formdata.searchText}}" were found.
</md-not-found>
<div ng-messages="searchForm.autocompleteField.$error" ng-if="searchForm.autocompleteField.$touched">
<div ng-message="required">Please <b>select</b> Pricing model id.</div>
</div>
</md-autocomplete>
</form>
</body>
<script>
var getdataList= getData().then(function(greeting) {
$scope.getdataList = greeting;
})
$scope.querySearch = querySearch;
function querySearch(query) {
var results = query ? $scope.getdataList.filter(createFilterFor(query)): $scope.getdataList, deferred;
return results;
}
function getData() {
deferred = $q.defer();
$http.get(url).then(function(response) {
var responseList = response.map(function (task) {
return {value: task.dataname, display:task.dataname};
});
deferred.resolve(responseList);
},function myError() {
console.log("Error")
});
return deferred.promise;
}
function createFilterFor(query) {
var lowercaseQuery = query.toLowerCase();
return function filterFn(state) {
var lowercaseState = state.value.toLowerCase();
return (lowercaseState.search(lowercaseQuery) >= 0);
};
}
</script>
Solution 4:
Use $apply to kick a digest cycle yourself, it will update the view.
$scope.getCustomers = function (query) {
selectsService.getCustomers(query).then(function (results) {
$scope.customersSelect = results.data;
$scope.$apply();
console.log($scope.customersSelect);
}, function(error) {
alert(error.data.message);
});
}
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