I haven't used search:suggest but if the results are already quoted (seems
strange to me - how is the inner " escaped ?) maybe you could just
create the JSON array yourself with
concat("[" , string-join($results,","),"]" )
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:general-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jakob Fix
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:48 AM
> To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
> Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] search:suggest and xdmp:to-json and jquery
> autocomplete not a perfect match?
>
> Hi,
>
> a typical integration of search:suggest is to use it as the data
> provider for, for example, the jquery autocomplete.
>
> using search:suggest I might get a sequence of strings:
>
> "A "Credit Crunch"?"
> "A Avaliação dos Alunos"
> "A Balancing Act"
> "A Better World for All"
> "A Bigger Picture"
>
> wrapping the search:suggest in xdmp:to-json gives me this:
>
> ["\"A \"Credit Crunch\"?\"", "\"A Avalia\u00E7\u00E3o dos Alunos\"",
> "\"A Balancing Act\"", "\"A Better World for All\"", "\"A Bigger
> Picture\""]
>
> I would very much like to see an option in xdmp:to-json that would not
> wrap another set of quotes around each item; in a perfect world this
> is the result I'd like to see:
>
> ["A \"Credit Crunch\"?", "A Avalia\u00E7\u00E3o dos Alunos", "A
> Balancing Act", "A Better World for All", "A Bigger Picture"]
>
> So, is there an easier option than trimming via a nested
> replace(replace()) the left and right quote marks (if they exist,
> single results aren't apparently quoted) of each element in the
> sequence, and then concat-ing and string-join-ing like this (not even
> sure that would work):
>
> concat(
> '["',
> string-join(
> search:suggest($term, $options, 5), '","'
> ),
> '"]'):)
>
> Right now the integration of jquery autocomplete and search:suggest
> seems quite cumbersome (but I may overlook the obvious solution, for
> sure!).
>
> Thanks for your advice,
> Jakob.
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