Add remote sources support for typeahead

[marcboeker]

Hi Mark,

the new typeahead component is awesome. But I often have to implement an autocomplete that is fetching data from a remote source. Would it be possible to add a callback, that I can use to query the remote server and return a set of items that match the entered query?

function(query) {
    // Do some fetching and return an array of items.
}

The jQuery UI autocompleter offers returning an array of objects. This is very helpful, as you would often like to display a human friendly title to the user and set an ugly ID in the background as the field's value.

[{title: 'Look at me', value: '12345xyz'}, {title: 'Foo Bar', value: '654321abc'}]

I know, this increases the complexity of the typeahead component, but makes it on the other side very useful.

Thanks Marc

[fat]

That's not something I'm likely going to get in for 2.0 - but maybe the next release

[andriijas]

I think its very good ideas but given the pressure they are under currently to release 2.0 tomorrow and lots of other issues on current 2.0 I think its better to slate this for a later release.

[Merg1255]

yes it would be nice for a next version.

[andriijas]

That said there is an open merge request of this at #1433 so I think there is a good chance getting it in sooner than later :)

[holic]

+1

[stefanozoffoli]

+1

[dbpolito]

👍

[BobWalsh]

+1

[mattkennedy]

+1

[t1mmen]

+1

[S33G]

+1

[huzzi]

+1

[suigintou]

+1

[bretrzaun]

+1

[epochwolf]

+1

[nishadmusthafa]

+1

[derrickontiveros]

+1

[pochy]

+1

[octohq]

+1

[krmcbride]

+1

[andriijas]

cmon @fat - i think enough people have +1'd this to get to know if it deserves the 2.1 label or if it's going to be later.

thanks!

[fat]

lol there is no 2.1 label! but i'm hoping to do lots of ajaxy stuff for 2.1.0 (not to be confused with 2.0.1) :)

[andriijas]

lol my bad, i swear i've seen it but it was probably a dream.

[rasheqrahman]

+1

[riccardodivirgilio]

+1!

[jenwilhelm]

+1!

[andriijas]

@fat i meant the 2.1 milestone. https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues?milestone=7&state=open

[and7ey]

+1 ))

[emeraldjava]

+1

[JustinDrake]

+1

[rebeling]

+1 I love working with bootstrap - but for this 'new source data update' I had to use jquery.ui and manipulate via bootstrap CSS ...works, but would be awesome to have this feature in future. Great job and happy coding ;)

[eguevara2012]

Hello! I have a problem on the line:
i = data.results.length;
Firebug says "data.results is undefined ", I must change something in code?
Thanks!

[tarator]

+1

[dennisoderwald]

+1

[eguevara2012]

+1

[confact]

+1

[ayush]

+1

[orloffv]

+1

[Nullpo]

+1

[keverw]

+1

[andriijas]

Anyone using jquery chosen plugin with bootstrap for typeahead like features might be interested in https://github.com/andriijas/chosen-bootstrap-fontawesome

[mathielen]

+1

[cemo]

+1

[resba]

Guys, seriously. This issue has enough +1s and I want to keep up with it without having the +1 notifications bogging down my inbox.

[add1ct3dd]

^ Remove notifications for the issue :)

It's clear that many people want this.

[bsdis]

+1

[fat]

You'll be able to easily do this in 2.1 thanks to @mlmorg #3682

[holic]

Thanks @fat and @mlmorg!

[ysmirnov]

+1

[acuencadev]

+1

[allan852]

+1

[andriijas]

you guys may want to check out http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/

[pushpinderbagga]

👍

[thiagovidal]

+1

[misterx]

👍