Question

I am a jQuery newbie and trying to implement the autocomplete functionality along with jQuery typewatch. That is, to get the data from web service after a certain time period say 750 ms rather than after minLength.

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $('.searchinput').autocomplete({
            source: function (request, response) {
                $.ajax({
                    type: "POST",
                    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                    url: "/Services/SampleWebService.asmx/GetProduct",
                    data: '{"searchString":"' + request.term + '"}',
                    dataType: "json",
                    async: true,
                    success: function (data) {
                        response(data);
                    }
                });
            },
        });
        $('.searchinput').typewatch({
            callback: $.autocomplete,
            wait: 750,
            highlight: false
        });
    });

My autocomplete thing works absolutely fine but somehow I am not able to include the typewatch thing to it. I am sure there is a serious coding failure which I am not aware of.

Thanks

Answer 1

The jquery autocomplete have this option as parameter called delay:

http://api.jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#option-delay

So what you have to do is to change that parameter, and remove the typewatch as:

  $(document).ready(function () {
        $('.searchinput').autocomplete({
            delay:750,
            source: function (request, response) {
                $.ajax({
                    type: "POST",
                    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                    url: "/Services/SampleWebService.asmx/GetProduct",
                    data: '{"searchString":"' + request.term + '"}',
                    dataType: "json",
                    async: true,
                    success: function (data) {
                        response(data);
                    }
                });
            },
        });
    });