Re: Customize autocomplete mixin match list?

[Ilya Obshadko <il...@gmail.com>]

Any kind of success on this?

I've been looking for ways to customize tapestry5-jquery autocomplete mixin
output, and this is not very obvious.


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:50 AM, George Ludwig <ge...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the replies...still working on this....
>
> @Lance: Did you mean override protected JSONArray generateResponseJSON(List
> matches)? This method already works as I'd like it to...it calls the
> toString() method on every element of the list:
>
> protected JSONArray generateResponseJSON(List matches)
>
>     {
>
>         JSONArray array = new JSONArray();
>
>         for (Object o : matches)
>
>         {
>
>             if (o instanceof JSONObject) array.put(o);
>
>             else array.put(o.toString());
>
>         }
>
>         return array;
>
>     }
>
>
> I'm already able to supply a list of objects that outputs the desired html
> when generateResponseJSON is invoked, however the output is treated as a
> string literal when displayed. I.e., I want each element in the list to be
> like this, and to be rendered as html:
>
> <span>someText</span><span style=\"float: right;\">someOtherText</span>
>
> But when the list is displayed, is shows the html markup as literal text,
> i.e. I get this:
>
> "<span>someText</span><span style=\"float: right;\">someOtherText</span>"
>
> when I want this:
>
> "someText      someOtherText"
>
> I looked at the autocomplete code in the debugger, and saw that it seems to
> care about the content type. In the autocomplete method, it does this:
>
> ContentType contentType = responseRenderer.findContentType(this);
>
> which sets the content type to text/html. I would think that as such, it
> would properly render the html. But it h=behaves as if the content type
> were text/plain.
>
> In other words, it seem that I can override that method all I want, but the
> mixin would still treat my markup as literal text.
>
> @Emmanuel: I looked at your example, and while it works great for your use
> case, my use case is more complex. I've created a composite textfield
> component, that includes the autocomplete mixin. I want people to be able
> to use my component and easily customize the output. In another case, I
> have subclassed that original component in to a self-contained object that
> requires its own customization, and trying to bundle the javascript
> override with it doesn't fly. Finally, I need to be able to have more than
> one of these components on the screen, so once again the javascript
> override doesn't work.
>
> What I'd really like to be able to do is override Autocomplete's javascript
> "_renderItem: function( ul, item )" method, so I can handle it in java.
> I've been playing around with the Bind mixin to do this, but without
> success.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Emmanuel DEMEY <demey.emmanuel@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Or you can use the one provided by the Tapestry jQuery project. I have
> > already customized the rendering by using this jQuery UI configuration :
> > http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#custom-data
> >
> > Manu
> >
> >
> > 2013/5/16 Lance Java <la...@googlemail.com>
> >
> > > You could extend the AutoComplete mixin and override
> > > generateResponseMarkup.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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>



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