Ajax call without paramName

[Kosmonaft]

Is it possible to call an API without paramName? The reason I'm asking is because the API end point which I'm trying hit is restcountries And query should look like this: https://restcountries.eu/rest/v1/name/xxx xxx- string

I tried in this way but the url is following: https://restcountries.eu/rest/v1/name/?null=ger

$('#search').autocomplete({ paramName:null, serviceUrl: 'https://restcountries.eu/rest/v1/name/', onSelect: function (suggestion) { alert('You selected: ' + suggestion.value + ', ' + suggestion.data); } });

[Shnoulle]

Here, the ajaxClass need name for parameters

Quick hack

$('#search').autocomplete({
  paramName:'name',
  serviceUrl: 'https://restcountries.eu/rest/v1',
  ajaxSettings:{
  beforeSend : function(jqXHR, settings) {
          settings.url=settings.url.replace("=","/").replace("?","/")
      }
  }
});

But you need to update response too : see https://www.devbridge.com/sourcery/components/jquery-autocomplete/#jquery-autocomplete-non-standard-queryresults

[Kosmonaft]

@Shnoulle Thank you. I didn't saw beforeSend.

Here is the whole solution if someone is going to need it:

$('#search').autocomplete({
    paramName: 'name',
    serviceUrl: 'https://restcountries.eu/rest/v1',
    minChars: 2,
    ajaxSettings: {
        beforeSend: function (jqXHR, settings) {
            settings.url = settings.url.replace("=", "/").replace("?", "/");
        }
    },
    transformResult: function (response) {
        return {
            suggestions: $.map($.parseJSON(response), function (item) {
                return {
                    value: item.name,
                    data: item
                };
            })
        };
    }
});