FunctionDataSource to Search Multiple Fields of an Address Book at Runtime : FunctionDataSource « YUI Library « JavaScript DHTML






FunctionDataSource to Search Multiple Fields of an Address Book at Runtime

 


<!--
Software License Agreement (BSD License)
Copyright (c) 2009, Yahoo! Inc.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use of this software in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
      following disclaimer.
    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
    * Neither the name of Yahoo! Inc. nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission of Yahoo! Inc.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Sources of Intellectual Property Included in the YUI Library

YUI is issued by Yahoo! under the BSD license above. Below is a list of certain publicly available software that is the source of intellectual property in YUI, along with the licensing terms that pertain to thosesources of IP. This list is for informational purposes only and is not intended to represent an exhaustive list of third party contributions to the YUI.

    * Douglas Crockford's JSON parsing and stringifying methods: In the JSON Utility, Douglas Crockford's JSON parsing and stringifying methods are adapted from work published at JSON.org. The adapted work is in the public domain.
    * Robert Penner's animation-easing algorithms: In the Animation Utility, YUI makes use of Robert Penner's algorithms for easing.
    * Geoff Stearns's SWFObject: In the Charts Control and the Uploader versions through 2.7.0, YUI makes use of Geoff Stearns's SWFObject v1.5 for Flash Player detection and embedding. More information on SWFObject can be found here (http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/). SWFObject is (c) 2007 Geoff Stearns and is released under the MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).
    * Diego Perini's IEContentLoaded technique: The Event Utility employs a technique developed by Diego Perini and licensed under GPL. YUI's use of this technique is included under our BSD license with the author's permission.

-->

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>


    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>FunctionDataSource to Search Multiple Fields of an Address Book at Runtime</title>

<style type="text/css">
/*margin and padding on body element
  can introduce errors in determining
  element position and are not recommended;
  we turn them off as a foundation for YUI
  CSS treatments. */
body {
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
}
</style>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="yui_2.7.0b-lib/fonts/fonts-min.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="yui_2.7.0b-lib/autocomplete/assets/skins/sam/autocomplete.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/animation/animation-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/datasource/datasource-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/autocomplete/autocomplete-min.js"></script>


<!--begin custom header content for this example-->
<style type="text/css">
#myAutoComplete {
    width:15em; /* set width here or else widget will expand to fit its container */
    padding-bottom:2em;
}
.match {
    font-weight:bold;
}
</style>


<!--end custom header content for this example-->

</head>

<body class=" yui-skin-sam">


<h1>FunctionDataSource to Search Multiple Fields of an Address Book at Runtime</h1>

<div class="exampleIntro">
  <p>This example uses a FunctionDataSource to perform string matching against multiple fields of a contacts database at runtime. Since the data for this example is loaded into local memory, queries should be quite fast to return data, but use of the custom function allows a more complex search algorithm. A custom formatter allows users to see their search term within the result set. An itemSelectEvent handler is used to update the input field with a custom value and to populate a hidden form field with the selected contact's ID for eventually submitting back to a server.</p>
      
</div>

<!--BEGIN SOURCE CODE FOR EXAMPLE  -->

<h3>Find a contact:</h3>
<div id="myAutoComplete">
  <input id="myInput" type="text">
  <div id="myContainer"></div>
  <input id="myHidden" type="hidden">
</div>

<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-assets/autocomplete-assets/js/data.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
YAHOO.example.FnMultipleFields = function(){
    var myContacts = [
        {id:0, fname:"Alice", lname:"Abrams", nname:"ace"},
        {id:1, fname:"Abraham", lname:"Axelrod", nname:"Abe"},
        {id:2, fname:"Bruce", lname:"Baxter", nname:null},
        {id:3, fname:"Robert", lname:"Brown", nname:"Bob"},
        {id:4, fname:"Carl", lname:"Carlson", nname:null},
        {id:5, fname:"Charlie", lname:"Chaplin", nname:"Chuck"},
        {id:6, fname:"Darla", lname:"Darling", nname:null},
        {id:7, fname:"David", lname:"Dashing", nname:"Dave"},
        {id:8, fname:"Egbert", lname:"Excellent", nname:null},
        {id:9, fname:"Engleberg", lname:"Humperdink", nname:null}
    ];
    
    // Define a custom search function for the DataSource
    var matchNames = function(sQuery) {
        // Case insensitive matching
        var query = sQuery.toLowerCase(),
            contact,
            i=0,
            l=myContacts.length,
            matches = [];
        
        // Match against each name of each contact
        for(; i<l; i++) {
            contact = myContacts[i];
            if((contact.fname.toLowerCase().indexOf(query) > -1) ||
                (contact.lname.toLowerCase().indexOf(query) > -1) ||
                (contact.nname && (contact.nname.toLowerCase().indexOf(query) > -1))) {
                matches[matches.length] = contact;
            }
        }

        return matches;
    };

    // Use a FunctionDataSource
    var oDS = new YAHOO.util.FunctionDataSource(matchNames);
    oDS.responseSchema = {
        fields: ["id", "fname", "lname", "nname"]
    }

    // Instantiate AutoComplete
    var oAC = new YAHOO.widget.AutoComplete("myInput", "myContainer", oDS);
    oAC.useShadow = true;
    oAC.resultTypeList = false;
    
    
    // Custom formatter to highlight the matching letters
    oAC.formatResult = function(oResultData, sQuery, sResultMatch) {
        var query = sQuery.toLowerCase(),
            fname = oResultData.fname,
            lname = oResultData.lname,
            nname = oResultData.nname || "", // Guard against null value
            query = sQuery.toLowerCase(),
            fnameMatchIndex = fname.toLowerCase().indexOf(query),
            lnameMatchIndex = lname.toLowerCase().indexOf(query),
            nnameMatchIndex = nname.toLowerCase().indexOf(query),
            displayfname, displaylname, displaynname;
            
        if(fnameMatchIndex > -1) {
            displayfname = highlightMatch(fname, query, fnameMatchIndex);
        }
        else {
            displayfname = fname;
        }

        if(lnameMatchIndex > -1) {
            displaylname = highlightMatch(lname, query, lnameMatchIndex);
        }
        else {
            displaylname = lname;
        }

        if(nnameMatchIndex > -1) {
            displaynname = "(" + highlightMatch(nname, query, nnameMatchIndex) + ")";
        }
        else {
            displaynname = nname ? "(" + nname + ")" : "";
        }

        return displayfname + " " + displaylname + " " + displaynname;
        
    };
    
    // Helper function for the formatter
    var highlightMatch = function(full, snippet, matchindex) {
        return full.substring(0, matchindex) + 
                "<span class='match'>" + 
                full.substr(matchindex, snippet.length) + 
                "</span>" +
                full.substring(matchindex + snippet.length);
    };

    // Define an event handler to populate a hidden form field
    // when an item gets selected and populate the input field
    var myHiddenField = YAHOO.util.Dom.get("myHidden");
    var myHandler = function(sType, aArgs) {
        var myAC = aArgs[0]; // reference back to the AC instance
        var elLI = aArgs[1]; // reference to the selected LI element
        var oData = aArgs[2]; // object literal of selected item's result data
        
        // update hidden form field with the selected item's ID
        myHiddenField.value = oData.id;
        
        myAC.getInputEl().value = oData.fname + " " + oData.lname + (oData.nname ? " (" + oData.nname + ")" : "");
    };
    oAC.itemSelectEvent.subscribe(myHandler);
    
    return {
        oDS: oDS,
        oAC: oAC 
    };
}();
</script>

<!--END SOURCE CODE FOR EXAMPLE  -->

</body>
</html>
<!-- presentbright.corp.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Thu Feb 19 10:53:05 PST 2009 -->

   
  








yui_2.7.0b.zip( 4,431 k)

Related examples in the same category