rich autocomplete send parameter before executing autocompleteMethod

[zeroshade]

Hello, I'm am in need to post a param before the autocomplete method is executed, in order to 1) Reuse code, and 2) Perform a particular operation depending of the component that it's calling it.

So for example I would like something like this:

<rich:autocomplete id="administradorAutocomplete"
                                            value="#{empresaDM.administradorSeleccionada}"
                                            autocompleteMethod="#{suggestionEntitiesDM.suggestionList}"
                                            var="administrador" converter="entityConverter">
                                    <f:param name="type" value="CertainEntity"></f:param>
 </rich:autocomplete>

However this is not working, So the question is what event should I intercept using a4j:ajax in order to achieve this behavior.

And by the way, is there a place where I can find an explanation of all the properties of autocomplete?? For example, what is the usage of fetchValue?, I have checked the LiveDemos however there's only the html part of the code, not the bean... and only basic properties are shown.

Thanks a lot.

[javajosey]

Hello Pablo,

I had a similiar problem. My page has to transfer information about the autocomplete before the autocomplete request is done. I achieved this by using jsFunction. My autocomplete looks like:

<rich:autocomplete mode="ajax" showButton="true" value="#{conf.fieldValue}" autocompleteMethod="#{BackingBean.search.autocomplete}" 
                                 minChars="3" onfocus="sendInfo('#{conf.label}')">
</rich:autocomplete>

Depending on conf.label (conf is a forEach variable) different data is fetched by the backing bean in the autocomplete method.

The transfer of this information is done by jsFunction (just after the autocomplete declaration):

<a4j:jsFunction name="sendInfo">
     <a4j:param name="param1" assignTo="#{BackingBean.search.currentAutocomplete}"></a4j:param>
</a4j:jsFunction>

Just, when the user puts the focus on a specific autocomplete "sendInfo" is executed with one parameter which is bound to the backing bean.

This solved my issue.

Greets,

Joseph