Anybody who have used Django and JQuery Autocomplete?

Question

Is there anybody out there who have used Django and JQuery Autocomplete? Am stuck on this and i will highly appreciate to see how someone else has done this! especially without using the AutocompleteWidget!

Gath

Answer 1

Not sure what's the problem with the widget, haven't used it: i just rolled my own.

So if you want to copy it feel free:

http://buggato.com/site_media/getcities.js

It's used here: http://buggato.com/filter/by/city/ you can try it searching for an Italian city like "Milano".

My python code looks like this:

def city_search(request):
    q = request.GET['q']
    city_list = City.objects.filter(name__istartswith=q).order_by("name")[:10]
    json = serialize("json", city_list)

    return HttpResponse(json, mimetype="application/x-javascript")

It's far from perfect but more than enough for my site.

On another note, why don't you mix and match what works? Use YUI's autocomplete if that works better.

Answer 2

There are some easy to follow examples in this GitHub mirror of django-autocomplete.

Answer 3

You'll find value in using Django Piston even for such a small task. It works as a stand-alone app (no funny stuff or serious changes to your app to use it). It allows you to create methods and expose them as JSON. It's a much more extensible way to add AJAX (saves a lot of time later when you decide to add even more AJAX). It's very light weight too.

Answer 4

some time ago I put together a small tutorial on this, you might find that useful... it's here