species-autocomplete.js

species-autocomplete.js

// initialise plugins
$(function(){

    var autocompleteUrl = 'http://species-ws.als.scot/auto';

    // autocomplete on navbar search input
    $("input.general-search").autocomplete(autocompleteUrl, {
        extraParams: {limit: 100},
        dataType: 'json',
        parse: function(data) {
            var rows = new Array();
            data = data.autoCompleteList;
            for(var i=0; i<data.length; i++) {
                rows[i] = {
                    data:data[i],
                    value: data[i].matchedNames[0],
                    result: data[i].matchedNames[0]
                };
            }
            return rows;
        },
        matchSubset: false,
        formatItem: function(row, i, n) {
            return row.matchedNames[0];
        },
        cacheLength: 10,
        minChars: 3,
        scroll: false,
        max: 10,
        selectFirst: false
    });
});