Match autocomplete only with the beginning of words

[justgoscha]

Match autocomplete only with the beginning of words

[JustGoscha]

I can imagine examples where they do want to match also for strings that are in the middle of a word. There's no good example I can think of right now in English, but in German there are many words that are consisting of two words... like "Zeitgeist", and if you search for "Geist" you maybe also want to see "Zeitgeist" as a suggestion.

[j0an]

In spanish is very common. Have you got an idea of what can be the approach to that? I will give a try

j.mobile

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Goscha Graf [email protected]
wrote:

I can imagine examples where they do want to match also for strings that are in the middle of a word. There's no good example I can think of right now in English, but in German there are many words that are consisting of two words... like "Zeitgeist", and if you search for "Geist" you maybe also want to see "Zeitgeist" as a suggestion.

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[davidmh]

Hi J0an,

Ideally, you should do this from the source of the data, but you can also filter it using the on-type attribute.

You can use a regular expression to filter the source. Maybe with \b, to match only the words staring with the typed value. (example)

[j0an]

hey @davidmh, thanks for the example.

but, i don't know how to apply to the autocomplete filter :(

[davidmh]

I was suggesting to apply it to the source of the data or to the function invoked by the on-type attribute, not directly into the filter.

Do you have a live version I can check? Maybe I can give a more detailed solution.

[j0an]

yes http://movistar.cuomatest.com/atencion-al-cliente/index2.html#/

j.

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Chuck [email protected] wrote:

I was suggesting to apply it to the source of the data or to the function
invoked by the on-type attribute, not directly into the filter.

Do you have a live version I can check? Maybe I can give a more detailed
solution.

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[davidmh]

I rewrote the SearchFormController to make it work like you want, but there are a few things you should consider on your implementation.

I've added some comments, but you can read more about it on a similar issue

.controller("SearchFormController", function($scope, $http, $filter, Suggest) {
    var all_suggestions = [];
    $scope.suggestions = [];
    Suggest.query(
        function(data) {
            // Asking for all the suggestions from the start it's an overkill.
            // For this particular case, we can store all the suggestions on a
            // scoped variable, since they are not needed yet.
            all_suggestions = data.data;
        }
    );
    $scope.doSuggest = function(query){
        // The suggestions should be requested here, passing the typed query to
        // the server.
        // But since we already have requested all possible suggestions, we'll
        // filter the matches here.
        $scope.suggestions = $filter('filter')(all_suggestions, function (value) {
            // We only want the suggestions starting with the typed word
            var exp = new RegExp("\\b" + query, "gi");
            return exp.test(value);
        });
    };
})

[j0an]

i love you @davidmh :)