From 1307b94592c128b31aee7dc8012fa74d2526768f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Messerle <rmesserle@google.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:07:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix(autocomplete): selected item now properly updates

Closes #1468
---
 src/components/autocomplete/autocomplete.spec.js         | 1 +
 src/components/autocomplete/js/autocompleteController.js | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/components/autocomplete/autocomplete.spec.js b/src/components/autocomplete/autocomplete.spec.js
index 9cc42a91104..5cef39fbd18 100644
--- a/src/components/autocomplete/autocomplete.spec.js
+++ b/src/components/autocomplete/autocomplete.spec.js
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ describe('<md-autocomplete>', function() {
       ctrl.keydown({ keyCode: $mdConstant.KEY_CODE.ENTER, preventDefault: angular.noop });
       scope.$apply();
       expect(scope.searchText).toBe('foo');
+      expect(scope.selectedItem).toBe(scope.match(scope.searchText)[0]);
     }));
   });
 
diff --git a/src/components/autocomplete/js/autocompleteController.js b/src/components/autocomplete/js/autocompleteController.js
index 13ad812e48c..6a3dc19f800 100644
--- a/src/components/autocomplete/js/autocompleteController.js
+++ b/src/components/autocomplete/js/autocompleteController.js
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@
     }
 
     function select (index) {
-      $scope.searchText = getDisplayValue(self.matches[index]) || $scope.searchText;
+      $scope.selectedItem = self.matches[index];
+      $scope.searchText = getDisplayValue($scope.selectedItem) || $scope.searchText;
       self.hidden  = true;
       self.index   = -1;
       self.matches = [];