How to use Select2 with JSON via Ajax request?

Question

My Select2 3.4.5 is not working with JSON data.

Here is my input box on HTML:

Answer 1

Here I give you my example which contain --> Country flag, City, State, Country.

Here is my output.

Attach these two Cdn js or links.

<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/4.0.10/css/select2.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/4.0.10/js/select2.min.js"></script>

js script

//for apend flag of country.

function formatState (state) {
    console.log(state);
    if (!state.id) {
      return state.text;
    }
    var baseUrl = "admin/images/flags";
    var $state = $(
      '<span><img src="'+baseUrl+ '/' + state.contryflage.toLowerCase() + '.png"  class="img-flag" /> ' +state.text+ '</span>'
    );
    return $state;
  };


$(function(){
    $("#itemSearch").select2({
    minimumInputLength: 2,
    templateResult: formatState, //this is for append country flag.
    ajax: {
        url: URL,
        dataType: 'json',
        type: "POST",
        data: function (term) {
            return {
                term: term
            };
        },
        processResults: function (data) {
            return {
                results: $.map(data, function (item) {
                    return {
                        text: item.name+', '+item.state.name+', '+item.state.coutry.name,
                        id: item.id,
                        contryflage:item.state.coutry.sortname
                    }
                })
            };
        }

    }
});

Expected JSON response.

[
   {
      "id":7570,
      "name":"Brussels",
      "state":{
         "name":"Brabant",
         "coutry":{
            "sortname":"BE",
            "name":"Belgium",

         }
      }
   },
   {
      "id":7575,
      "name":"Brussels",
      "state":{
         "name":"Brabant Wallon",
         "coutry":{
            "sortname":"BE",
            "name":"Belgium",

         }
      }
   },
   {
      "id":7578,
      "name":"Brussel",
      "state":{
         "name":"Brussel",
         "coutry":{
            "sortname":"BE",
            "name":"Belgium",

         }
      }
   },

]

Answer 2

My ajax never gets fired until I wrapped the whole thing in

setTimeout(function(){ .... }, 3000);

I was using it in mounted section of Vue. it needs more time.

Answer 3

If ajax request is not fired, please check the select2 class in the select element. Removing the select2 class will fix that issue.

Answer 4

This is how I fixed my issue, I am getting data in data variable and by using above solutions I was getting error could not load results. I had to parse the results differently in processResults.

searchBar.select2({
            ajax: {
                url: "/search/live/results/",
                dataType: 'json',
                headers : {'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')},
                delay: 250,
                type: 'GET',
                data: function (params) {
                    return {
                        q: params.term, // search term
                    };
                },
                processResults: function (data) {
                    var arr = []
                    $.each(data, function (index, value) {
                        arr.push({
                            id: index,
                            text: value
                        })
                    })
                    return {
                        results: arr
                    };
                },
                cache: true
            },
            escapeMarkup: function (markup) { return markup; },
            minimumInputLength: 1
        });

Answer 5

for select2 v4.0.0 slightly different

$(".itemSearch").select2({
    tags: true,
    multiple: true,
    tokenSeparators: [',', ' '],
    minimumInputLength: 2,
    minimumResultsForSearch: 10,
    ajax: {
        url: URL,
        dataType: "json",
        type: "GET",
        data: function (params) {

            var queryParameters = {
                term: params.term
            }
            return queryParameters;
        },
        processResults: function (data) {
            return {
                results: $.map(data, function (item) {
                    return {
                        text: item.tag_value,
                        id: item.tag_id
                    }
                })
            };
        }
    }
});

Answer 6

Tthe problems may be caused by incorrect mapping. Are you sure you have your result set in "data"? In my example, the backend code returns results under "items" key, so the mapping should look like:

results: $.map(data.items, function (item) {
....
}

and not:

 results: $.map(data, function (item) {
    ....
    }