AutoComplete with Fake Ajax
HTML
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2011.3.1129/styles/kendo.common.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2011.3.1129/styles/kendo.default.min.css">
<script src="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2011.3.1129/js/kendo.all.min.js"></script>
<input id="searchBox" />
JavaScript
$("#searchBox").kendoAutoComplete({
minLength: 3,
dataTextField: "Title",
//JSON property name to use
dataSource: {
pageSize: 10,
//Limits result set
transport: {
read: {
url: "/echo/json/",
//using jsfiddle echo service to simulate JSON endpoint
dataType: "json",
type: "POST",
data: {
// /echo/json/ echoes the JSON which you pass as an argument
json: JSON.stringify([
{
"Title": "Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord"},
{
"Title": "Doctor Who: The Key to Time"},
{
"Title": "Doctor Who: The Time Meddler"},
{
"Title": "Doctor Who: The End of Time"}
])
}
}
}
}
});
$("#searchBox").blur(function() {
var data = $(this).data("kendoAutoComplete").dataSource._data,
nbData = data.length,
found = false;
for(var iData = 0; iData < nbData; iData++) {
if(this.value === data[iData].Title)
found = true;
}
console.log(found);
alert(found);
});