Manually open the autocomplete suggestion and refresh the data

[erymuzuan]

I just have a simple needs, building intellisense feature for my app, got everything working but the KendoUI autocomplete doesn't have open method to manually open the popup when the user type ".",

see the sample code, see line 41 (where I need to manually open the autocomplete)  and line 51 , replace the suggestion list
 

01.var tree = GetTheListOfSuggestionFromSomewhere();
02.var data = _.chain(tree)
03.    .map(function (t) {
04.        if (t.parent === "")
05.            return t.name;
06.        return undefined;
07.    })
08.    .filter(function (t) {
09.        return typeof t !== "undefined";
10.    })
11.    .value();
12.
13.console.log(data);// this log out  array of string
14.
15.var dataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
16.    data: data
17.});
18.var input = $(element).data("kendoAutoComplete") ||
19.   $(element).kendoAutoComplete({
20.       dataSource: tree,
21.       dataTextField: "path",
22.       change: function () {
23.           var path = this.value();
24.           console.log("selected path ", path);
25.
26.       },
27.       filter: "startswith",
28.       placeholder: "Select path...",
29.       separator: ""
30.   }).data("kendoAutoComplete");
31.
32.$(element)
33.        .change(function () {
34.            value($(this).val());
35.            console.log("new value", value());
36.        })
37.       .val(value())
38.    .on("keydown", function (e) {
39.        if (e.which === 110 || e.which === 190) {
40.            var path = $(this).val() + ".";
41.            console.log("show the auto complete", path);
42.            var filtered = _.chain(tree)
43.                .filter(function (t) {
44.                    return t.parent === path;
45.                })
46.                .map(function (t) {
47.                    return t.name;
48.                })
49.                .value();
50.            console.log(filtered);
51.            //input.setDataSource(dataSource);
52.            dataSource.data(filtered);
53.            input.refresh();
54.        }
55.    });

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello,

 Perhaps you can use the search method. It will display the results matching the search argument.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
Telerik