Question

I’m trying to use the JQuery Autocomplete, but I guess I am having trouble getting the format it expects from my handler.

Here is what the handler does. This was in another SO question….

 context.Response.ContentType = "text/plain";
 var companies = GetCompanies(); //This returns a list of companies (List<string>)

 foreach (var comp in companies)
 {
     context.Response.Write(comp + Environment.NewLine);
 }

This doesn’t work. It is definately getting called and it is returning what I would expect this code to return. Any ideas?

Answer 1

The response needs to be in JSON format. See http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Autocomplete where it discusses using a String that specifies a URL.