Question

I’m in position where the autocomplete triggers a http request using get and q attribute. I managed to process the q input and produced a result list.

then I serialized the list into json and send it back, but somehow I can’t see the result.

This is my view code:

def autocomplete_company(request):
    if request.is_ajax():
        q = request.GET.get('q', '')
        companies = Company.objects.filter(name__icontains = q ).order_by('name')[:10]
        results = companies.values_list('name', flat=True)
        data = simplejson.dumps([unicode(r) for r in results])
    else:
        data = 'fail'

    return HttpResponse(data, mimetype="application/json")

AJAX:

$(function(){
  $("#search_type").autocomplete("/company/autocomplete/",{
    minChars: 2
  });
});

any thoughts?

Answer 1

You forgot to pass the querystring ‘q’ in your request

$(function(){
  $("#search_type").autocomplete("/company/autocomplete/?q='your_search_string'",{
    minChars: 2
  });
});

q = request.GET.get('q', '')