:id_element attribute not working

[leobossmann]

Hi,

first of all thanks for the gem, it works like a charm, I just have one (hopefully minor) issue.

I have managed to succesfully integrate an autocomplete text field. It works so far and pulls the right data. I want to update a hidden field with the id it pulls from the database and that is exactly where the problem is:

In my form I have the following:

f.autocomplete_field :customer_name, autocomplete_customer_last_name_purchase_orders_path, :id_element => '#purchase_order_customer_id'

purchase_order_customer_id is a normal text field, which should, by my understanding, be updated with the id value of the option I selected in the autocomplete dropdown.

It renders as:
<input data-autocomplete="/purchase_orders/autocomplete_customer_last_name" id="purchase_order_customer_name" id_element="#purchase_order_customer_id" name="purchase_order[customer_name]" size="30" type="text" />
The :id_element attribute gets rendered as normal HTML attribute, therefore the update does not work.

Shouldn't it be rendered as something like data-id-element ="#purchase_order_customer_id' in order to work?

Or am I missing something here? I tried to follow the readme as closely as possible, please bear with me If I'm asking stupid questions, this is my first rails project…

Thanks in Advance

Leo

[leobossmann]

…nevermind, it works, seems some misconfiguration on my side caused it.

[leobossmann]

…nevermind, it works, seems some misconfiguration on my side caused it.

[nicholaspufal]

What you did to solve that? Here the field always displays 0 (can see it on the server log, when I submit it).

[nicholaspufal]

What you did to solve that? Here the field always displays 0 (can see it on the server log, when I submit it).

[leobossmann]

That is the strange thing about it, I have no idea. I wrote the ticket above and suddenly it worked. I changed absolutely nothing.That's why I suspect that my configuration is somewhat flawed, I use a Rails Turnkey Linux, maybe that's the culprit…

[leobossmann]

That is the strange thing about it, I have no idea. I wrote the ticket above and suddenly it worked. I changed absolutely nothing.That's why I suspect that my configuration is somewhat flawed, I use a Rails Turnkey Linux, maybe that's the culprit…

[nicholaspufal]

Thanks for the reply.

But my guess is that you assertion is true. It should be "data-id-element" => this is HTML5 compatible. "id_element" isn't.

I did solve it here by using :update_elements instead of :id_elements. That way worked fine.

Did create another issue with that info:

#75

Just in case you or any other need that reference ;)

[nicholaspufal]

Thanks for the reply.

But my guess is that you assertion is true. It should be "data-id-element" => this is HTML5 compatible. "id_element" isn't.

I did solve it here by using :update_elements instead of :id_elements. That way worked fine.

Did create another issue with that info:

#75

Just in case you or any other need that reference ;)

[andreteves]

I tried "update_elements" but it didn't work for me, I get an error with JSON.generate (maybe because I'm using json_pure as default encoder). Any help?

However, this commit fixed my problem with id_element not rendering "data-id-element":

https://github.com/andreteves/rails3-jquery-autocomplete/blob/master/lib/rails3-jquery-autocomplete/form_helper.rb

[andreteves]

I tried "update_elements" but it didn't work for me, I get an error with JSON.generate (maybe because I'm using json_pure as default encoder). Any help?

However, this commit fixed my problem with id_element not rendering "data-id-element":

https://github.com/andreteves/rails3-jquery-autocomplete/blob/master/lib/rails3-jquery-autocomplete/form_helper.rb

[sandrods]

I don't think this issue should be closed.
The expected beahviour does not work. The commit above should be incorporated in the gem, don't you think?

[sandrods]

I don't think this issue should be closed.
The expected beahviour does not work. The commit above should be incorporated in the gem, don't you think?

[leobossmann]

I agree, I just tried it on a different machine, with the same results as above. Gonna try again tomorrow and will post the results.

[leobossmann]

I agree, I just tried it on a different machine, with the same results as above. Gonna try again tomorrow and will post the results.

[leobossmann]

@andreteves, your commit fixed the problem for me, thanks a lot!
@nicholaspufal, I tried the :update_elements thing, it resulted in a JSON Error as well, however I didn't use the autocomplete_field_tag, maybe that's the problem…

[leobossmann]

@andreteves, your commit fixed the problem for me, thanks a lot!
@nicholaspufal, I tried the :update_elements thing, it resulted in a JSON Error as well, however I didn't use the autocomplete_field_tag, maybe that's the problem…

[leobossmann]

@andreteves, I have have issued a pull request with your fix, is that alright with you?

[leobossmann]

@andreteves, I have have issued a pull request with your fix, is that alright with you?

[andreteves]

Sure!

[andreteves]

Sure!

[dabit]

Merged and released as 0.9.1

[dabit]

Merged and released as 0.9.1