angucomplete

A simple but powerful AngularJS directive that allows you to quickly create autocomplete boxes that pull data either from a server or local variable.

To see a demo go here: http://darylrowland.github.io/angucomplete

NOTE: I no longer actively mantain this repository. I've started using ReactJS now and its a breath of fresh air compared to AngularJS. If you're still using Angular and need a autocomplete component I'd encourage you to look at this fork of my original Angucomplete: https://github.com/ghiden/angucomplete-alt

Key Features

Show just a title, a title and a description or a title, description and image in your autocomplete list
Deliberately minimally styled so you can customise it to your heart's content!
Reads JSON data and allows you to specify which fields to use for display
Simple setup - e.g. to pull data from a server, just set the url parameter

Getting Started

Download the code, and include the angucomplete.js file in your page. Then add the angucomplete module to your Angular App file, e.g.

var app = angular.module('app', ["angucomplete"]);

Local Usage

<angucomplete id="ex1"
              placeholder="Search countries"
              pause="100"
              selectedobject="selectedCountry"
              localdata="countries"
              searchfields="name"
              titlefield="name"
              minlength="1"
              inputclass="form-control form-control-small"/>

Remote Usage

<angucomplete id="members"
              placeholder="Search members"
              pause="400"
              selectedobject="testObj"
              url="http://myserver.com/api/user/find?s="
              datafield="results"
              titlefield="firstName,surname"
              descriptionfield="email"
              imagefield="profilePic"
              inputclass="form-control form-control-small"/>

Description of attributes

Attribute	Description	Required	Example
id	A unique ID for the field	Yes	members
placeholder	Placeholder text for the search field	No	Search members
pause	The time to wait (in milliseconds) before searching when the user enters new characters	No	400
selectedObject	Where to store the selected object in your model/controller (like ng-model)	Yes	myObject
url	The remote URL to hit to query for results in JSON. angucomplete will automatically append the search string on the end of this, so it must be a GET request	No	http://myserver.com/api/users/find?searchstr=
datafield	The name of the field in the JSON object returned back that holds the Array of objects to be used for the autocomplete list.	No	results
titlefield	The name of the field in the JSON objects returned back that should be used for displaying the title in the autocomplete list. Note, if you want to combine fields together, you can comma separate them here (e.g. for a first and last name combined)	Yes	firstName,lastName
descriptionfield	The name of the field in the JSON objects returned back that should be used for displaying the description in the autocomplete list	No	twitterUsername
imageuri	A http location or directory where images reside	No	http://localhost/images/
imagefield	The name of the field in the JSON objects returned back that should be used for displaying an image in the autocomplete list	No	pic
minlength	The minimum length of string required before searching	No	3
inputclass	The classes to use for styling the input box	No	form-control
localdata	The local data variable to use from your controller. Should be an array of objects	No	countriesList
searchfields	The fields from your local data to search on (comma separate them)	No	title,description

Running test suite

In order to run tests clone repository and run following commands within repo's directory:

bower install
grunt

License

The angucomplete project is covered by the MIT License.

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