Auto Search on SearchBox.setQuery

[stoussaint]

Hi,

I can't find a way to programmatically execute a search after setting the searchBox query. For instance I display a search screen with a restored search query and i'd like to see the result immediately without to have to press return within the search box.

Is this a feature eligible to Pull Requests or something that I miss ?

Thanks in advance

[stoussaint]

Hi,

I only achieve to do this by simulating the 'keypress' event on 'enter' like this :

var e = jQuery.Event("keypress"); e.which = 13; $("input.ui-autocomplete-input:first").trigger(e);

Is this a good way to do this, or is there something more efficient ?

Thanks

[samuelclay]

Here you go:

// Returns the unstructured search query
visualSearch.searchBox.value() 
// "country: "South Africa" account: 5-samuel title: "Pentagon Papers""

// Returns an array of Facet model instances
visualSearch.searchQuery.facets()
// [FacetModel<country:"South Africa">, 
//  FacetModel<account:5-samuel>, 
//  FacetModel<title:"Pentagon Papers">]

// Set the search query with raw text
visualSearch.searchBox.value("Country: US State: \"New York\" Key: Value")

[stoussaint]

Thanks for those simple get/set commands.

I replace my use of :

visualSearch.searchBox.setQuery(query);

by

visualSearch.searchBox.value(query)

But still the search request is not send automatically. I still need to simulate a keypress event.

[samuelclay]

It's the developer's responsibility for doing something to the search query. So serialize the query using the searchBox.value() method, and then send it using ajax or whatever method you were using.

[schue]

you can trigger the search by using visualSearch.searchBox.searchEvent({}) after setting value() or setQuery(). The empty object is probably an incorrect hack but it doesn't throw an error.