suggestionBox text search

[dreuzel]

Suggestion box setup, seems to be made with Sql searches in mind
(after n chararacters pass the string each time to te sever,) wich includes a lot of overhead)

Ive a text search module finding my proposed selection (hibernate search) but requery for every added character seems a lot of overkill


I would like to query only as soon as non alfabetic characters nor digits
are presented
Some minor processing to be done on the client side to detect the characters.

I'm not sure however how to integrate this JS with the suggestionBox
can someone help me on the way .

[ilya_shaikovsky]

1) you could check the String right in autocomplete method and avoid to query the db according to some your conditions.

2) If you want to work on client side - define your conditions in onsubmit attribute and return false if no request should be sent.

[dreuzel]

As I work on server side,
1)A packet will be ransmitted on every character entered
This is exactly what I want to avoid

2) onsubmit
would not be triggered inter request ????


I would like something like :

 <script>
 var token="?%*";
 function onSearchKeyUp()
 { var inpField=event.getSource();
 var len=inputField.length-1;
 if (token.indexOf(inpField.charAt(len))>-1)
 infField=inpField.substring(0,len);
 Call SuggestionBox(inpField);
 event.setSource(inputField);
 return false;
 }
 </script>

This would cause the server to be called only when assistance is required



Onsubmit will not do this

[ilya_shaikovsky]

2)

onsubmit="if !confirm('call suggestion?'){return false;}"

will cause cancel request.