Auto-suggest with MJT – two demos

Nick’s demo

The latest version of MJT supports auto-complete. See Nick’s simple example.

Will’s demo

image Here’s my example (currently specific to films) Notice how the thumbnail updates as you navigate the menu :-) I had to add an extra ‘onchange’ hook, see source code for details.

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2 Responses to “Auto-suggest with MJT – two demos”

  1. daepark Says:
    July 10, 2007 at 1:33 am | Reply

    Hi Will,
    I think Nick’s example is using mql to do prefix matching. We also have an autocomplete service that’s not really documented. If you try autocompleting on freebase.com, you should be able to see the call to that service using firebug. Anyway, I’ve implemented a mjt.Task to do this:

    // mjt.Task for /api/service/autocomplete
    fb.AutocompleteTask = function(prefix, type, category) {
    mjt.Task.apply(this);
    if (!type) type = “/common/topic”;
    if (!category) category = “instance”;
    this.values = {prefix: prefix, type: type, category: category,
    disamb: 1, limit: 10, get_all_types: 0} // defaults
    };
    fb.AutocompleteTask.prototype.enqueue = function() {
    var req = this; // for closure
    var path = “/api/service/autocomplete”;
    mjt.callback_script_get(mjt.service_url, path, this.values,
    function (o) {
    mjt.parse_metaweb_script_response(req, o);
    });
    };

  2. Will Moffat Says:
    July 10, 2007 at 11:17 pm | Reply

    Hi Dae, thanks for the code snippet. I’ll try and make some time to make another example using your mjt.Task It will be interesting to compare the performance.

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