Drew Wilson AutoSuggest and Ajax

Question

I am trying to get Ajax to work with this plugin.

I have this code;

$.post("/Search/jQuery_GetSkillList", { q:""}, function (jSonData) {
  $("#AutoSuggest").autoSuggest(jSonData, { selectedItemProp: "name", selectedValuesProp: "value", searchObjProps: "name", startText: "Type skills here" });
});

which works fine but the potential items is in the 1,000's so I really need it to work as you type.

So I try this;

$("#AutoSuggest").autoSuggest("/Search/jQuery_GetSkillList", { selectedItemProp: "name", selectedValuesProp: "value", searchObjProps: "name", startText: "Type skills here" });

My controller, in both instances, is being called correctly and it returns the same data.

However, the second code snippet does not render the returned results whereas the first does.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

For those that are interested I found the answer.

I included the un-packed version of the control and located a line that said $.json and made it $.post instead and now the control works very very well.

Thanks to those that spent time on this.

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