Ajax Autocomplete for Jquery : How To Send Dynamic Parameters

Question

i am using Ajax Autocomplete for Jquery ( http://www.devbridge.com/projects/autocomplete/jquery/ ) in one of my application. The Search Form looks something lik

Answer 1

Might be an old question, but I feel that here's the best way to do it:

$('#q').autocomplete({
    ...
    onSearchStart: function(q) {
        q.entity_type = $('#top_search_select').val();
    }
    ...
});