Consider autocomplete JSON API endpoint

I’m not sure what exactly that would entail. The normal autocomplete already uses JSON when retrieving the autocomplete suggestions – would this new endpoint do the same, and just take the request parameters as JSON instead of as GET parameters?

Also, it seems like this might make more sense as an addition to the JSON:API Search API module → , not this one. But I might be mistaken. Probably depends on whether this would need to duplicate any of the code in that contrib module.

@drunken monkey

Thanks for the response.

I have not gone through the code of search_api_autocompletemodule, but as you mentioned if it's already a REST API endpoint in the search_api_autocompletemodule then it will make more sense to add the JSON API resource in the JSON: API Search API module to extend it.

Thanks, I will give it a try.

I was going through the controllersearch_api_autocomplete/src/Controller/AutocompleteController.php, but does not look like it can act as a method to get JSON results simply because it is expecting arguments as SearchInterface $search_api_autocomplete_search and it seems expecting a view like an example request is search_api_autocomplete/search?display=page_1&filter=search_api_fulltext&q=different.

My requirement is to just pass the search index, field(s) which could be only Fulltext indexed fields, and search string, and get the results in JSON format.

Please suggest.

It seems like https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_decoupled → module is what could help me, will try this.

Meanwhile, if you have any suggestions for the same please do let me know.

Thanks

The Search API Autocomplete module won’t work if you have no search configured for it. Supported types of searches are search views and pages → , or anything else for which someone provides a \Drupal\search_api_autocomplete\Search\SearchPluginInterface plugin.

So, it’s not necessarily based on a view, but it needs to be based on something – you indeed can’t just pass in the user input and get suggestions without any more setup.

Thanks for clarifying.