Question

I am trying to use Andy Matthews autocomplete for jquery mobile found here. My client service has a method that uses a parameter. I am not sure how to change my client side call to accept parameters?

Here is my client side call:

  //WHERE DO I PUT INPUT PARAMETERS??

   $("#searchBox").autocomplete({
                method: 'POST',
                target: $('#suggestions'),
                source: "ClientService.svc/REST/GetStates",
                link: 'target.html?term=',
                minLength: 1

            });

Here is my service:

   [OperationContract]
        [WebInvoke(Method = "POST", RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json, BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.WrappedRequest, ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)]
        public List<string> GetStates(string y)
        {
            List<string> x= GetData(y);
            return x;

        }

Answer 1

After taking a look at the source code, it seems that the plugin doesn’t allow passing custom POST parameters. What the user types in the box is sent in a parameter called term, but if you can’t modify your service, what I would do is modifying the following part of the code:

...
} else {
$.ajax({
    type: settings.method,
    url: settings.source,
    // Change the following line
    // data: { term: text },
    // for:
    data: { y: text },
...

It’s quite easy to find, as there’s just one $.ajax call in the whole plugin.