Semantic UI - Getting search query

Question

I am using Semantic UI and more specifically a ui fluid seach. I have declared it as following:

        <div id="inputIDtextfield" class="ui fluid search" style="width: 250px">
            <div class="ui icon input">
                <input id="inputValue" style="width: 250px" class="prompt" type="text" placeholder="Onekey_ID">
                <i class="search icon"></i>
            </div>
            <div class="results"></div>
        </div>

I need to send a request to a RESTful server with the searching query as part of the body and this is where the problem comes - I am not sure how to retrieve the searhing query. I tried as following:

$('#inputIDtextfield')
    .search({
        minCharacters: 3,
        searchOnFocus: false,
        searchDelay: 500,
        apiSettings : {
            url : '/rest/get-hcp-suggest',
            method: 'POST',
            data: JSON.stringify({
                'search': document.getElementById('inputValue').value
            }),
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            dataType: "json",

            onResponse: function(response){
                console.log(response);
                var convertedResponse = {
                    results : []
                };

                // translate response to work with search
                $.each(response, function(index, item) {
                    // add result to category
                    convertedResponse.results.push({
                        title       : item.name,
                        description : item.onekey_id,
                    });
                });
                return convertedResponse;
            },
        },
    });
}

but in this part:

data: JSON.stringify({
    'search': document.getElementById('inputValue').value
}),

document.getElementById('inputValue').value is always empty.

So how can I retrieve the searching query?

Answer 1

I managed to solve the problem by setting the data of the request in the beforeSend method of the apiSettings, as following:

beforeSend: function(settings) {
    settings.data = JSON.stringify({
        'search': document.getElementById('inputValue').value
    });

    return settings;
}

Some more information can be found on the semantic UI API usage page.