jQuery AutoComplete (jQuery UI 1.8rc3) with ASP.NET web service

Question

Currently, I have this version of the autocomplete control working when returning XML from a .ashx handler. The xml looks like this:

Answer 1

I got the autocomplete to work with .asmx by using JSON. Here is an example of what I did:

JavaScript:

$("#tbNameFilter").autocomplete({
    source: function (request, response) {
        $.ajax({
            url: "/Services/AutocompleteService.asmx/Aoi_Autocomplete",
            data: "{ 'q': '" + request.term + "', 'limit': '10' }",
            dataType: "json",
            type: "POST",
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            dataFilter: function (data) { return data; },
            success: function (data) {
                response($.map(data.d, function (item) {
                    return {
                        label: item.Name,
                        value: item.Name
                    }
                }))
            }
        });
    },
    minLength: 1
});

Web Service:

[WebMethod]
public List<FAD_Aoi> Aoi_Autocomplete(String q, int limit)