Question

I am puzzled why autocomplete does not work. Here is the form in the .jsp code below:

<form:form method="post" action="save.html" modelAttribute="word">
    <table>
        <tr>
            <th>German word</th>
            <td><form:input path="german" id="german" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2"><input type="submit" value="Save" /></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    <br />
</form:form>

here are the javascript functions (in the same .jsp file)

$(document).ready(function() { 
$( "#german" ).autocomplete({
    source: '${pageContext. request. contextPath}/get_word_list.html'
});    

});

and here is the relevant part of the controller:

@Autowired
private WordService wordService;

@RequestMapping(value = "/goToDictionary", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView index() {

    Word word = new Word();
    return new ModelAndView("dictionary", "word", word);
}

@RequestMapping(value = "/get_word_list", method = RequestMethod.GET, headers = "Accept=*/*")
public @ResponseBody
List<String> getCountryList(@RequestParam("term") String query) {
    System.out.println(query);
    return getMatch(query);
}

public List<String> getMatch(String query) {
    query = query.toLowerCase();
    List<String> matched = new ArrayList<String>();
    for (Word v : wordService.getAllWord()) {
        if (v.getGerman().toLowerCase().startsWith(query)) {
            matched.add(v.getGerman());
        }
    }
    return matched;
}

I know for sure that the getMatch(String query) gets called and works properly.
So I guess the problem is on the jsp. file

any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

OK, I have found the solution. it is in the spring-servlet.xml file. It did not work because i failed to add this.

xsi:schemaLocation="ttp://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">

I added, and now everything is OK