Autocompleter

[M Marin]

Hello,

I am building a form to update a database using s:textfield tags in the JSPs. I would like to offer suggestions from the entries already in de Database, like an autocompleter search box, but I would like to know if there is something simpler than the autocompleter with Json format. Is there something quick and easy that I can integrate in my form tags such as the s:textfield and able to offer suggestions from a List of Strings.

Regards.

MR.

[David Newton]

What's simpler than JSON? How long is the list of Strings--if it's short, you could just use an immediate list.

But... seriously, it doesn't get much simpler than this.

[M Marin]

I am still considering which strings go into the autosuggest, but I think I would keep it short. Maybe 20, but it could get up to 10000 if the boss want that possibility. What do you mean by immediate list.

Thank you.

MR-

[David Newton]

http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/autocompleter.html

The "list" attribute...

Useless if you have 10k entries, though.

I'm not really sure what you're comparing its complexity to: an autocompleter is an autocompleter; they all work pretty much the same way.

[Sailesh Ganeshan]

hi guys,

Sorry to interrupt. I'd like to use autocompleter, but not sure regarding the JARs that i need to include so that struts recognises the tag. I'm not going to use Dojo plugin, can anyone help me out?

[M Marin]

As far as I remember, the struts autocompleter uses the dojo plugin and I was passing the values from the DAO using json format. The struts package for the action extends json-default. But please correct me I am wrong.
I added the following jars in my app for the autocompleer.
struts2-json-plugin-2.1.8.1.jar
struts2-dojo-plugin-2.1.8.1.jar
json-lib-2.1.jar

Regards.

[Sailesh Ganeshan]

thanks mate!

[Johannes Geppert]

don't forget the struts2 dojo plugin is marked as deprecated.

if you start a new project you should not start with this plugin.
better you code it with plain javascript or use a other plugin like the
struts2 jquery plugin.

[pooja par]

Hi all,

Can any one give me an example how autocompleter works with struts2 jquery plugin.
Nowhere I can find the complete example.

addManualIOIManager.jsp:

<s:url id="loadbrokers" action="loadManualIOI"/>  
<sj:autocompleter name="manualIOIBean.broker" href="%{loadbrokers}" list="brokerslist" loadMinimumCount="1" /> 

struts.xml:

action name="loadManualIOI" class="com.wellmanage.trading.eieio.actions.AddManualIOIAction" method="loadBroker">
	   	<result name="input">addManualIOIManager.jsp</result>
	   </action>

AddManualIOIAction actionclass:

public String loadBroker() throws Exception {
		brokerslist = ValidationManagerDAOImpl.getInstance().getBrokers(manualIOIBean.getBroker());
		
		return INPUT;
	}

whatelse I need to do.
When I type a text in the textbox.. the autocompleter doesn't load any values.

Please tell me where I am going wrong or provide an example

Thanks