on Autocomplete, call ashx page to get data

Ravi Sant

I was not very sure where to post this. Found aspx and httphandler related to asp.net so posted here. I have used JQuery to call autocomplete on a textbox1 as below:

$("input#textbox1").autocomplete({
source: ["India", "Japan", "United Kingdom", "United States", "Australia", "France", "China"]
});

This works fine. When i try to change this to

$("input#textbox1").autocomplete('GenericHandler.ashx');

, the 'GenericHandler.ashx' never gets called. In ProcessRequest method of GenericHandler, i have written

I have included appropriate verb in web.config for caller. How do i achieve the autocomplete calling ashx and then getting data to fill ? Please help. note: I am using jquery-ui.min.js for AutoComplete.

ktrrzn

hi RaviSant, As far as i know, u can use JSON format to return ur result from ashx file. and in the .autocomplete use options as parameter. like this.

var options, a;
jQuery(function(){
options = { serviceUrl:'GenericHandler.ashx' };
a = $('#query').autocomplete(options);
});

and in the web service class, return the JSON format like this.

{
query:'Li',
suggestions:['India', 'Japan', 'United Kingdom', 'United States', 'Australia', 'France', 'China'],
data:['IN','JP','UK','US','AZ','FR','CH']
}

query is the entered search key suggestions is the list to display in dropdown data is optional to use as value field when u select suggestion data from dropdown text To know more about JSON,here[^] To learn how to return JSON format from ashx, here[^] Ref: I get this code from devbridge.com[^] Hope this works!

Please give any idea or suggestion on my advice.