Is it possible to change the Url which JQuery's JQueryUI Autocomplete generates?

Question

I\'m using JQuery JQueryUI\'s AutoComplete code. It goes to my url i provide (to find the answers), but appends ?term=

after the url.

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Answer 1

You can use $.getJSON() yourself in the source option, for example:

$(".autocomplete").autocomplete({ 
  source: function(req, resp) {
    $.getJSON("/myurl/" + encodeURIComponent(req.term), resp);
  }
});

Something similar happens when you give it a string, it sends the first parameter passed to the method as the object...which has a property term, by doing it manually you're just getting more control over your parameters. I'm also using encodeURIComponent() above to be safe when generating a url directly (e.g. spaces to +, etc.).