Hi all,
We're developing a wicket web-application that makes heavy use of
auto-complete text fields populated from slow back-end (mainframe) web
services.
Concerned that standard auto-complete behavior will be too chatty and
result in many calls to slow services, we're keen on an alternative less
chatty model:
- No autocomplete behavior is triggered until at least N (eg 3)
characters have been entered.
- When N characters are entered, a query is performed, once.
- These results are cached client-side, and subsequent character entry
simply narrows the search in the pre-retrieved results.
- If any of the first N characters in the string are altered, the cache
results are discarded and a new query is performed.
Does anything like this exist in open source that could be reused?
-Ben
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