[MarkLogic Dev General] search:suggest and xdmp:to-json and jquery autocomplete not a perfect match?

[David Lee]

I haven't used search:suggest but if the results are already quoted (seems strange to me - how is the inner " escaped ?) maybe you could just
create the JSON array yourself with 

   concat("[" , string-join($results,","),"]" )


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-
> bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Jakob Fix
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:48 AM
> To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
> Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] search:suggest and xdmp:to-json and jquery
> autocomplete not a perfect match?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> a typical integration of search:suggest is to use it as the data
> provider for, for example, the jquery autocomplete.
> 
> using search:suggest I might get a sequence of strings:
> 
> "A "Credit Crunch"?"
> "A Avaliação dos Alunos"
> "A Balancing Act"
> "A Better World for All"
> "A Bigger Picture"
> 
> wrapping the search:suggest in xdmp:to-json gives me this:
> 
> ["\"A \"Credit Crunch\"?\"", "\"A Avalia\u00E7\u00E3o dos Alunos\"",
> "\"A Balancing Act\"", "\"A Better World for All\"", "\"A Bigger
> Picture\""]
> 
> I would very much like to see an option in xdmp:to-json that would not
> wrap another set of quotes around each item; in a perfect world this
> is the result I'd like to see:
> 
> ["A \"Credit Crunch\"?", "A Avalia\u00E7\u00E3o dos Alunos", "A
> Balancing Act", "A Better World for All", "A Bigger Picture"]
> 
> So, is there an easier option than trimming via a nested
> replace(replace()) the left and right quote marks (if they exist,
> single results aren't apparently quoted) of each element in the
> sequence, and then concat-ing and string-join-ing like this (not even
> sure that would work):
> 
> concat(
>       '["',
>       string-join(
>         search:suggest($term, $options, 5), '","'
>       ),
>       '"]'):)
> 
> Right now the integration of jquery autocomplete and search:suggest
> seems quite cumbersome (but I may overlook the obvious solution, for
> sure!).
> 
> Thanks for your advice,
> Jakob.
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