AskApache says:

This is turning into one of my favorite blogs, awesome content samaxes… jQuery is still totally foreign to me, thanks.

Samuel Santos says:

Hey Nila,

At the end of the article you have a “Get this example source code!” link pointing to a complete working example.

Samuel Santos says:

You can change the width by changing the width option of the plugin.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#city').autocomplete({
        url: '/Autocomplete.action?autocomplete=',
        minChars: 1,
        max: 10,
        width: 150,
        scroll: false
    });
})

muthu kumar says:

hello sir,
i want urgent help from u. i am using three drop down boxes and a text field in jsp. the first drop down fetches the district values from sql table and the second drop down box fetches the area values and the third fetches airport values i want all the three will autocomplete and autosuggest please help me thanks in advance

nila says:

Hello Sam,
I have a question, i have two text box
calls auto_text1
calls auto_text2

autocomplete of text2 is depend on text1, how to get the values of text1 in aut_text2.
thanks in advance,
Sincerely yours,
raghu n m

nila says:

thanks Sam.

my apologies this how the code looks like,

jsp code

<stripes:text name='text1' id='text1' />
<stripes:text name='text2' id='text2' />

js code

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#text1').autocomplete({
        url: '/xref/Search.action?autocomplete_text1=',
        minChars: 1,
        max: 10,
        size: 40,
        scroll: true
    });
})
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#text2').autocomplete({
        url: '/xref/Search.action?autocomplete_text2=&text1='+ $('#text1').val(),
        minChars: 1,
        max: 10,
        size: 40,
        scroll: true
    });
})

in server side

public Resolution autocomplete_text2()
    {
        System.out.println(text1);
        StringBuilder results = new StringBuilder();
        if (q != null) {

            for (String name : lists) {
                if (name.indexOf(q) != -1) {

                    results.append(name).append("\n");
                }
            }
        }
        return new StreamingResolution("text/plain", results.toString());
    }

out put
when i try to print text1 in server side i recieved ‘null’ for
url: ‘/xref/Search.action?autocomplete_text2=&text1=’+ $(‘#text1′).val(),
and ‘undefined’ when i use
url: ‘/xref/Search.action?autocomplete_text2=&text1=’+ $(‘#autocomplete_text1′).val()

nila says:

thanks Sam. Still it is still printing null. Do you have any working example.
thanks in advance,
nila

nila says:

oh!!! thanks any way. i will try , if it works i will post the code.

Samuel Santos says:

Try debugging it with Firebug: console.log($('#text1'));

Irshad says:

Hi Sam,
Do you a working jquery autocomplete based on Spring MVC. Can u suggest how to get it done.

–Irshad.

chum says:

hi Samuel. I make a project in NetBeans and put your code and files in it. It works. At least I can see the page like in the very beginning of this page.

But after project is started TomCat sends the next message

INFO: Could not locate property of name [city] on ActionBean.net.sourceforge.stripes.util.bean.NoSuchPropertyException: Bean class com.samaxes.autocomplete.presentation.action.AutocompleteActionBean does not contain a property called ‘city’. As a result the following expression could not be evaluated: city

I checked all code and config files for two times, but can not fix the problem. There is not really property ‘city’ in ‘AutocompleteActionBean’

what’s wrong?

I’m using NetBeans 6.5, jdk 1.6, tomcat6, stripes 1.5.1

Samuel Santos says:

Hi chum,

Your two questions are related to Stripes. I encourage you to post Stripes questions to the Stripes Users mailing list: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.stripes.user.

INFO: Could not locate property of name [city] on ActionBean.net.sourceforge.stripes.util.bean.NoSuchPropertyException: Bean class com.samaxes.autocomplete.presentation.action.AutocompleteActionBean does not contain a property called ‘city’. As a result the following expression could not be evaluated: city

This is an info message, not an error. It’s something that happens frequently in Stripes. But I really don’t know the reason for this to happen.

Relating to the Stripes DefaultMultipartWrapperFactory, please read Stripes File Uploads: http://www.stripesframework.org/display/stripes/File+Uploads.
You are probable missing an initialization parameter in the Stripes Filter or a needed library for file uploads.

Samuel Santos says:

Hi chum,

You can’t directly access jsp files under the WEB-INF folder.
This is forbidden by the servlet specification.

To have this example working, unzip the source code file and build the project by running the maven goal mvn package inside the folder where you have unzipped the source code.
Then copy the war file inside target folder to your server.
It will deploy under the / context path (e.g. http://localhost:8080/).

s says:

opss, sorry..
i didn’t notice it was STRIPES lib

Devendra Jain says:

Hi Samuel. Can you please verify if the above code works for Chinese characters? I am facing some issues with Chinese chars. If i define the unicode equivalent for chinese chars in my data string i.e.
private static final List cities = 1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html”>Arrays.asList(
“Aberdeen”, “Ada”, “\u8FD4\u56DE\u8FD4\u56DE”, “\u8FD4\u56DE\u8FD4″, …);

And then type the chinese chars in the text box, then this code wont work.
Can you please help me in the same?

Samuel Santos says:

Hi Vishnu,

This is a recurring question as you may notice from earlier comments.

The message you got is not an error, it’s a Stripes info message.
It’s something that happens frequently with Stripes and may already have been fixed in latest versions.