Typeahead and Bloodhound - how to get JSON result

jquery, json, typeahead.js

Solution

// instantiate the bloodhound suggestion engine
var countries = new Bloodhound({  
  datumTokenizer: function(countries) {
      return Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace(countries.value);
  },
  queryTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace,
  remote: {
    url: "http://vocab.nic.in/rest.php/country/json",
    filter: function(response) {      
      return response.countries;
    }
  }
});

// initialize the bloodhound suggestion engine
countries.initialize();

// instantiate the typeahead UI
$('.typeahead').typeahead(
  { hint: true,
    highlight: true,
    minLength: 1
  }, 
  {
  name: 'countries',
  displayKey: function(countries) {
    return countries.country.country_name;        
  },
  source: countries.ttAdapter()
});

Example Codepen

Typeahead Output

Notes:

- data on your server = "prefetch".

- data from outside = "remote"

Problem

I have the json list of Countries: http://vocab.nic.in/rest.php/country/json And I'm trying to get country_id and country name with Bloodhound suggestion engine. O tried following code: ``` var countries = new Bloodhound({ datumTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.obj.whitespace('country_name'), queryTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace, limit: 10, prefetch: { url: 'http://vocab.nic.in/rest.php/country/json', filter: function(response) { return response.countries; } } }); $('#my-input').typeahead({ hint: true, highlight: true, minLength: 1 }, { name: 'states', displayKey: 'value', source: countries.ttAdapter() }); ``` Which doesn't work. How should I change the code to make this work?

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