Question

I’m using Jquery ui autocomplete plugin in a combo box and I’m reading the values from a JSON file. The problem is in my JSON file. I have fields with same value. Like this.
({
name:a
},
{
name:a
},
{
name:b
})

So when I type ‘a’ in combo box, it gives me 2 ‘a’ s. But I need only one (I need only the unique values from JSON file). How do I do this? I do not have the complete code right now, that’s why I cant put it. Sorry about that and thank you.

Answer 1

EDIT: You could use something like this to remove duplicate entries from the json array before sending that data to the jQuery autocomplete plugin.

var names = {};
var param = "name"
$.each(data.people, function() {
    if (!names[this[param]])
       names[this[param]] = [];   
    names[this[param]].push(this);
});

Then we can do source: names