AngularJS Auto Complete Directive
A simple AngularJS directive which creates an Auto Complete input field. It get data from an API endpoint and filter it and display it in list.
You will need to add AngularJS lib. Download it from here.
After adding lib, you need following three files:
<link href="app/stylesheets/style.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="app/component/auto-complete/js-auto-complete.js"></script>
<script src="app/component/auto-complete/js-api-service.js"></script>Now, In your module where you want to use this auto complete directive, inject its dependency with following syntax
var app = angular.module('app', ['jsAutoComplete']);In your view template, add following html tag
<js-auto-complete
class-name="form-control"
max-result="15"
placeholder="Some text"
api-end-point="<API_URL>">
</js-auto-complete>api-end-point : Your data source URL. Data type: STRING.
broadcast : (optional) Use this if you want to broadcast the response which you get from your api end point. If you use this attribute, its mandatory to use broadcast-event-name attribute, else it won't broadcast. This will be helpful if you want to populate your results somewhere else than list. Data type: BOOLEAN. Default: false.
broadcast-event-name : (optional) Name of the event which will be listened by listeners. Mandatory to use with broadcast attribute. Data type: STRING.
create-text : (optional) The value of this attribute will be visible last in the auto-complete list. If user clicks on this list item, he will be redirected some other page. User will be redirected to specified route which is provided in different attribute create-text-route. This is helpful if you want user to do something if his desired result wasn't populated in the auto complete list. Data type: STRING.
create-text-route : (optional) This attribute becomes mandatory if you are using create-text. When user clicks on the list item which is specified in create-text attribute, he will be redirected to this route or URL. Data type: STRING.
class-name : (optional) Add CSS class to the input element of this directive. Add multiple CSS classes with space separation. Data type: STRING.
display-list : (optional) If set to false it hides the auto complete list permanently. Data type: BOOLEAN. Default: true
max-result : (optional) Max results to populate in the auto complete list. Data type: NUMBER. Default: 15.
placeholder : (optional) This is HTML5 placeholder attribute on the input element. Data type: STRING.