A fresh approach to autocomplete implementations, specially for Django. Status: v4 alpha, v3 stable, v2 & v1 deprecated.
The good old import autocomplete_light
API support will be dropped with
Django 1.9. All imports have moved to autocomplete_light.shortcuts
and
importing autocomplete_light
will work until the project is used with
Django 1.9.
To be forward compatible with Django master (>=1.9) support, replace::
import autocomplete_light
By:
from autocomplete_light import shortcuts as al
This will also make your scripts a lot shorter.
We've moved back to pre-1.1.10 CSS positioning. This means appending the
autocomplete box to an arbitrary DOM element (body by default) and using
calculating the top
and bottom
attribute in javascript with
yourlabs.Autocomplete.fixPosition()
pretty much like Django admin's
calendar widget does. While blunt, this change should help the widget being
more compatible across Django admin themes.
While this positioning system has been used since around 2005 in Django when Adrian Holovaty open sourced admin media in commit dd5320d, it has never been documented that's it's a good system that works well and there's no reason to break backward compatibility in Django admin for that
Javascript yourlabs.Autocomplete
object does not bind to the same
events as it used too. Event handling has been backported from twitter
typeahead and tested on firefox and android (#411).
The form field doesn't call super().validate()
anymore and now
completely relies on AutocompleteInterface.validate_values()
. This was
how django-autocomplete-light
was initially designed for, kudos to
@zhiyajun11 for pointing it out ! This optimises code which was doing
validation twice and gives the flexibility it was initially designed for
from within the Autocomplete class (#410).
Model Autocompletes now generate custom SQL be able to save the order in which users have filled an autocomplete field. This actually comes from the last 2.x version.
Most users won't notice the break except maybe the CSS ones and of course also for Django 1.9 users.
Field.validate()
.The JS part has been extracted to be packaged as a standalone jQuery library to get more pull requests on the JS / CSS part. It sounds like a pretty good start in the JS / UI testing and packaging world. Any help there is welcome. CI now has tests against MySQL and PostgreSQL since we're generating custom SQL.
Again welcome to new contributors @lucky-user @mhuailin and @SebCorbin and thanks all for reporting issues on GitHub with all needed details and forks which make it easy to reproduce.
And thanks to @blueyed who helped sinking this year's backlog like crazy.