Samething here, I did the same as mentioned in Cathy's message, but no
result.
2008/4/2, autozoom <cioni_mauro_at_yahoo.com>:
>
>
> I think I made things right as explained by the documentation. The problem
> here is that I don't even see any ajax call while typing, so the issue is
> not on the code side I guess.
>
> Can you explain how you got it to work please?
>
>
>
> Bill Edwards - Sun BOS Software wrote:
> >
> > I have been able to make it work using in my PHP test. This was
> > version 4.2.
> >
> > Cathy Mucci wrote:
> >> I'm not sure if this will help or not. I received this info a few
> >> days back on adding autocomplete code to a test I'm working on:
> >>
> >> From Dmitry:
> >>
> >> Using autocomplete is 2-step process. See attachment below for
> >> excerpts from TLD docs, but in short autoComplete and
> >> autoCompleteExpression must be defined.
> >>
> >> In order to use it, fields must be bound like this:
> >> autoComplete="true"
> >> autoCompleteExpression = "#{AutoCompleteBean.getOptions}"
> >>
> >> where AutoCompleteBean is
> >> <managed-bean>
> >> <description>The backing bean for the field autoComplete
> >> example</description>
> >> <managed-bean-name>AutoCompleteBean</managed-bean-name>
> >>
> >> <managed-bean-class>autocomplete.AutoCompleteBean</managed-bean-class>
> >> <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
> >> </managed-bean>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Attribute indicating to turn on/off the autocomplete functionality of
> >> the TextField. Autocomplete would trigger the AJAX request to the
> >> component.
> >>
> >> Autocomplete will submit the content of the text field for server side
> >> processing that will be processed using JSFX partial lifecycle cycle.
> >> Providing of autoComplete options remains responsibility of the
> >> developer. Specifically, autoCompleteExpression needs to be set
> >> By default autocomplete is off."
> >>
> >> and for autoCompleteExpression :
> >>
> >>
> >> " Use the autoCompleteExpression to specify the method that will
> >> filter an autoCompleteExpression list, i.e. to produce new set of
> >> options to be rendered as autoComplete prompts ( see
> >> autoCompleteExpression) . When autoComplete mechanism is enabled ( by
> >> specifying autoComplete attribute), autoCompleteExpression method will
> >> be called using the Ajax mechanism in the background every time user
> >> changes the content of the field. Note that this requires
> >> autoCompleteExpression method to perform well. Also, it is recommended
> >> to limit number of options available to user as the return of this
> >> method - both for usability and in order to increase download speed.
> >>
> >> The value of autoCompleteExpression must be an EL expression and it
> >> must evaluate to the name of a public method that is defined by
> >> com.sun.webui.jsf.model.AutoComplete, something like: public Options[]
> >> getOptions(String filter) { ... } In this example, expression would
> >> look like this: < webuijsf:textField autoComplete = "true"
> >> autoCompleteExpression ="#{AutoCompleteBean.getOptions}"
> >> text="#{AutoCompleteBean.text}" label = "AutoComplete" id = "tf" />
> >>
> >> "
> >>
> >>
> >> autozoom wrote:
> >>> hello,
> >>> I tried the autocomplete function in 4.2 build 5, like this:
> >>>
> >>> <webuijsf:textField autoComplete="true" id="textField1"
> style="position:
> >>> absolute; left: 180px; top: 252px"
> >>> autoCompleteExpression
> ="#{Page1.getOptions}"/>
> >>>
> >>> where
> >>> public Option[] getOptions(String filter) {
> >>> Option[] ret = new Option[3];
> >>> ret[0] = new Option(1L, "uno");
> >>> ret[1] = new Option(2L, "due");
> >>> ret[2] = new Option(3L, "tre");
> >>> return ret;
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> but nothing happens when typing in the textfield; it doesn't seem to
> >>> be a
> >>> problem of code, it just doesn't fire any ajax call when typing
> >>>
> >>> what am I missing?
> >>
> >>
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