Extend the bootstrap-typeahead in order to take an object instead of a string
- by Lorraine Bernard
_.extend($.fn.typeahead.Constructor.prototype, {
render: function (items) {
var that = this;
items = $(items).map(function (i, item) {
i = $(that.options.item)
.attr('data-value', item[that.options.display])
.attr('data-id', item.id);
i.find('a').html(that.highlighter(item));
return i[0];
});
items.first().addClass('active');
this.$menu.html(items);
return this;
},
select: function () {
var val = this.$menu.find('.active').attr('data-value'),
id = this.$menu.find('.active').attr('data-id');
this.$element
.val(this.updater(val, id))
.change();
return this.hide()
}
});
return function (element, options) {
var getSource = function () {
var users = app.userCollection.filter(function (model) {
if (options && options.excludeCurrentUser) {
return model.id !== app.currentUser.id;
}
});
return _.map(users, function (user) {
return {
id: user.get('id'),
full_name: user.get('first_name') + ' ' + user.get('last_name')
};
});
};
element.typeahead({
minLength: 3,
source: getSource,
display: 'full_name',
sorter: function (items) {
var beginswith = [],
caseSensitive = [],
caseInsensitive = [],
item,
itemDisplayed;
while (item = items.shift()) {
itemDisplayed = item[this.options.display];
if (!itemDisplayed.toLowerCase().indexOf(this.query.toLowerCase())) {
beginswith.push(item);
} else if (~itemDisplayed.indexOf(this.query)) {
caseSensitive.push(item);
} else {
caseInsensitive.push(item);
}
}
return beginswith.concat(caseSensitive, caseInsensitive);
},
highlighter: function (item) {
var query = this.query.replace(/[\-\[\]{}()*+?.,\\\^$|#\s]/g, '\\$&');
return item[this.options.display].replace(new RegExp('(' + query + ')', 'ig'), function ($1, match) {
return '<strong>' + match + '</strong>';
});
},
matcher: function (item) {
var value = item[this.options.display];
return {
value: ~value.toLowerCase().indexOf(this.query.toLowerCase()),
id: item.id
};
},
updater: function (item, userId) {
options.hiddenInputElement.val(userId);
return item;
}
});
};