Django autocomplete search by tag and render Tag List

Question

ive searched through the autocomplete packages to realize my autocomplete search. But all what ive found is autocompleting one word. I need a list of words- not just one.

It should behave like here on stack tag input. user start typing-select the tag if there is set one. Insert as many tags as he need and when hes finished the whole list of tags should render a List filtered by those tags with taggit.

But how to realize the search for many tags? Autocomplete only works for one?! or did i understand something badly wrong?

Answer 1

jQueryUI part:

$("#id_of_your_input").keypress(function(){
    $(this).autocomplete({
        source: $(this).data('url'), ## or hard code it: source: '/api/...'
        minLength: 2,
        delay:300,
        select: function(event, ui) {
            $('#id_of_your_drop_down').val(ui.item.value);
        }
    });
});

The view which handles your $(this).data('url'):

import json

NUMBER_OF_RESULTS = 5

def view_for_your_api(request):
    if not request.is_ajax():
        return HttpResponse('false')
    results = model.objects.all()[:NUMBER_OF_RESULTS]
    data = json.dumps([{'label': r.name, 'value': r.name} for r in results])
    return HttpResponse(data, 'application/json')

I assumed you have r.name in your model. Replace it with your field or your neccessities