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mongodbmeteortypeahead.js
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Reputation: 7832

Return an object from typeahead package in meteorjs

I've added atmospherejs.com/package/typeahead to a meteor project and it's working fine. It's returning a string but can I change typeahead to return an object and have the template render the object accordingly? I need the _id in addition to the name from the participant I'm adding to a mongodb-collection.

js-file:

Template.raceAddParticipant.acparticipants = function () {
  return Participants.find().fetch().map(function (post) { return post.name; });
};

html-file:

<input class="form-control typeahead" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="off" data-source="acparticipants" name="name" type="text" value="" placeholder="Participant" />

regards Claus

Upvotes: 0

Views: 260

Answers (1)

Andrew Mao
Andrew Mao

Reputation: 36930

Typeahead is not designed for Meteor and you will need to do a lot of wrangling to work with the strings it returns.

One solution is to use something like https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-autocomplete, which works of Meteor Collections instead of arrays, is reactive, and supports rendering using Meteor templates with proper data contexts (i.e. _id and all other fields). It's basically like typeahead, but designed around Meteor.

Upvotes: 1

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