Hi Jose,
Since it looks like your hitting your own custom servlet, you might want to
look at using something already built.
I would take a look at:
http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#remote
Peter Dietz
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Jose Blanco <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to use autocomplete to help users when entering authors in
> the submission form. We have presently 100K different authors so the list
> is quite big. I have tried a couple of things:
>
> (1) Using the jquery version that comes with DSpace I did this, which
> basically tries to autocomplete once the author enters "lastnam,":
>
>
> $('#aspect_submission_StepTransformer_field_dc_contributor_author1').keyup(function()
> {
> var input =
> $("#aspect_submission_StepTransformer_field_dc_contributor_author").val();
> input = $.trim(input);
>
> var size = input.indexOf(",") + 1;
> var how_long = input.length;
> var all = size + " " + how_long;
> if(size == how_long) {
> //var newstr = input.replace(/(.*\,).*/, "$1");
> var newstr = input;
> $("#suggest").html("");
> $.ajax({
> url: "http://blancoj.dev.deepblue.lib.umich.edu/cgi/authors";,
> data : "input="+newstr,
> success: function(msg) { $("#suggest").html(msg); }
> });
> }
> });
>
> -What I observed was that typing at a normal speed, I could type so fast
> that the options never got displayed, and the same thing happened when I
> update to a more current version of jquery and tried this code:
>
>
> $('#aspect_submission_StepTransformer_field_dc_contributor_author').keyup(function()
> {
> var input =
> $("#aspect_submission_StepTransformer_field_dc_contributor_author").val();
>
> var size = input.indexOf(",") + 2;
> var how_long = input.length;
> var all = size + " " + how_long;
>
> if((size == how_long) && ( size > 1 )) {
> var newstr = input;
> var result;
>
> var jqxhr = $.ajax({
> type: "get",
> url: "http://blancoj.dev.deepblue.lib.umich.edu/cgi/authors2";,
> data : "input="+newstr,
> dataType: "xml",
> async: false,
> success: function(data) { return data; }
> }).responseText;
>
> var xml_string = jqxhr;
>
> // Parse the XML string into a XMLDocument
> var doc = window.DOMParser
> ? new DOMParser().parseFromString(xml_string, 'text/xml') //
> Standard
> : new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM').loadXML(xml_string); // IE
>
> // Find the answer nodes
> var answers_nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName('data');
> var answers = [];
>
> // Loop through them and save their text content into an array
> for (var i = 0; i < answers_nodes.length; i++) {
> answers.push(answers_nodes[i].firstChild.data)
> }
> answers.push("")
>
> $( "#aspect_submission_StepTransformer_field_dc_contributor_author"
> ).autocomplete({
> source: answers
> });
>
> }
> });
>
> Any insight into this?
>
> Thank you!
> Jose
>
>
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