YUI Library Examples: AutoComplete Control: Custom Formatting, with a Proxyless Remote DataSource

Sample Code

Data:

{
 "query": {
  "count": "10",
  "created": "2009-04-03T09:49:28Z",
  "lang": "en-US",
  "updated": "2009-04-03T09:49:28Z",
  "uri": "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/yql?q=select+*+from+search.images+where+query%3D%22puppy%22+and+mimetype+like+%22%25jpeg%25%22",
  "diagnostics": {
   "publiclyCallable": "true",
   "url": {
    "execution-time": "47",
    "content": "http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/images/v1/puppy?format=xml&start=0&count=10"
   },
   "user-time": "50",
   "service-time": "47",
   "build-version": "911"
  },
  "results": {
   "result": [
    {
     "abstract": null,
     "clickurl": "http://lrd.yahooapis.com/_ylc=X3oDMTQ4djBydWlmBF9TAzIwMjMxNTI3MDIEYXBwaWQDb0pfTWdwbklrWW5CMWhTZnFUZEd5TkouTXNxZlNMQmkEY2xpZW50A2Jvc3MEc2VydmljZQNCT1NTBHNsawN0aXRsZQRzcmNwdmlkA0tPWDFWa2dlQXUxQ3I1Lm9zeG1zeWdUMDJKRTJEMG5XaEdnQUNGQUo-/SIG=12he0tu52/**http%3A//www.pc-wallpapers.co.uk/wallpapers/Animals/dogs/lonely_puppy_1024.jpg",
     "date": "2005/04/18",
     "filename": "lonely_puppy_1024.jpg",
     "format": "jpeg",
     "height": "768",
     "mimetype": "image/jpeg",
     "refererclickurl": "http://lrd.yahooapis.com/_ylc=X3oDMTQ4djBydWlmBF9TAzIwMjMxNTI3MDIEYXBwaWQDb0pfTWdwbklrWW5CMWhTZnFUZEd5TkouTXNxZlNMQmkEY2xpZW50A2Jvc3MEc2VydmljZQNCT1NTBHNsawN0aXRsZQRzcmNwdmlkA0tPWDFWa2dlQXUxQ3I1Lm9zeG1zeWdUMDJKRTJEMG5XaEdnQUNGQUo-/SIG=12c8c25vo/**http%3A//www.pc-wallpapers.co.uk/viewer.php%3Fcmax=4%26cat=DO%26id=000001",
     "refererurl": "http://www.pc-wallpapers.co.uk/viewer.php?cmax=4&cat=DO&id=000001",
     "size": "85300",
     "thumbnail_height": "120",
     "thumbnail_url": "http://thm-a01.yimg.com/image/21a5b2d2b9d3aa14",
     "thumbnail_width": "160",
     "title": "lonely_puppy_1024.jpg",
     "url": "http://www.pc-wallpapers.co.uk/wallpapers/Animals/dogs/lonely_puppy_1024.jpg",
     "width": "1024"
    }
    ...
   ]
  }
 }
}

CSS:

Markup:

JavaScript:

YAHOO.example.CustomFormatting = (function(){
    // Instantiate DataSource
    var oDS = new YAHOO.util.ScriptNodeDataSource("http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?");
    oDS.responseSchema = {
        resultsList: "query.results.result",
        fields: ["url", "thumbnail_url", "clickurl"]
    };

// Setting to default value for demonstration purposes.
    // The webservice needs to support execution of a callback function.
    oDS.scriptCallbackParam = "callback";

// Instantiate AutoComplete
    var oAC = new YAHOO.widget.AutoComplete("myInput","myContainer", oDS);

// Bump up the query delay to reduce server load
    oAC.queryDelay = 1;

// The webservice needs custom parameters
    oAC.generateRequest = function(sQuery) {
        return "q=select%20*%20from%20search.images%20where%20query%3D%22" +
            sQuery +
            "%22%20and%20mimetype%20like%20%22%25jpeg%25%22&format=json";
    };

// Result data passed as object for easy access from custom formatter.
    oAC.resultTypeList = false;
    // Customize formatter to show thumbnail images
    oAC.formatResult = function(oResultData, sQuery, sResultMatch) {
        if(oResultData.thumbnail_url) {
            img = "<img src=\""+ oResultData.thumbnail_url + "\">";
        }
        else {
            img = "<span class=\"img\"><span class=\"imgtext\">N/A</span></span>";
        }
        return "<div class=\"result\">" + img + " <span class=\"name\">" + sResultMatch + "</span></div>";
    };
    oAC.itemSelectEvent.subscribe(function(sType, aArgs) {
        var oData = aArgs[2]; // object literal of selected item's result data

// Redirect to the img
        window.location.href = oData.clickurl;
    });

// Stub for form validation
    var validateForm = function() {
        // Validation code goes here
        return true;
    };

return {
        oDS: oDS,
        oAC: oAC,
        validateForm: validateForm
    }
})();

Configuration for This Example

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YUI Library Examples: AutoComplete Control: Custom Formatting, with a Proxyless Remote DataSource

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