jquery-ui autocomplete with ASP MVC suggestions not displaying

Question

I have been trying to get a simple example of the jquery-ui autocomplete to work. I have a controller setup to handle the query, and it returns the json that looks to be in order, but I am getting no suggestions showing up.

Here are the js libraries I am including:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/Scripts/jquery-ui-1.8.1.custom.min.js"></script>

 <link href="/Content/jquery-ui-1.8.1.custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

and here is the javascript and the form tags:

  <script type="text/javascript">
      $(function () {

          $("#organization").autocomplete({
              source: function (request, response) {
                  $.ajax({
                      url: '/Organization/OrganizationLookup',
                      dataType: "json",
                      data: {
                          limit: 12,
                          q: request.term
                      }
                  })
              },
              minLength: 2   
          });
      });
    </script> 

<div class="ui-widget"> 
    <label for="organization">Organization: </label> 
    <input id="organization" /> 
</div> 

I get back a json response that looks reasonable from my controller:

[{"id":"Sector A","value":"Sector A"},{"id":"Sector B","value":"Sector B"},{"id":"Sector C","value":"Sector C"}]

id and value seem to be the default naming that autocomplete is looking for.

But I get no joy at all. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Not the issue here -- you should put css before javascript. Always.

You are not doing anything with the return value. You need to use a callback function to take that data and do something with it. (The "success:" parameter, I believe).

Answer 2

Thanks to Hogan's suggestion, I added the following callback function to the success parameter, and I was good to go:

 success: function (data) {
                          response($.map(data, function (item) {
                              return {
                                  label: item.label,
                                  value: item.value
                              }
                          }))