feat(clearOnSelected): allow users to clear the input instead of filling

In some use-cases, like when you're using autocomplete to make tags on a page, or using the output in any other way than prefilling the query, you don't want the suggested value to show in the input, but would rather like it to be empty.

Before this PR it was basically impossible to have your input not filled, since it came back on blur and a few different places (see `resetInputValue`

fixes #241

Author: Haroenv

README.md

@@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ When initializing an autocomplete, there are a number of options you can configu
 
 * `debug` – If `true`, the autocomplete will not close on `blur`. Defaults to `false`.
 
+* `clearOnSelected` – If `true`, the autocomplete will empty the search box when a suggestion is selected. This is useful if you want to use this as a way to input tags using the `selected` event.
+
 * `openOnFocus` – If `true`, the dropdown menu will open when the input is focused. Defaults to `false`.
 
 * `appendTo` – If set with a DOM selector, doesn't wrap the input and appends the wrapper and dropdown menu to the first DOM element matching the selector. It automatically positions the wrapper under the input, and sets it to the same width as the input. Can't be used with `hint: true`, because `hint` requires the wrapper around the input.

examples/basic.html

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ <h3>Basic example</h3>
       autocomplete('#search-input', { hint: false }, [
         {
           source: autocomplete.sources.hits(index, { hitsPerPage: 5 }),
-          displayKey: 'my_attribute',
+          displayKey: 'name',
           templates: {
             suggestion: function(suggestion) {
               return suggestion._highlightResult.name.value;

src/angular/directive.js

@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ angular.module('algolia.autocomplete', [])
             openOnFocus: scope.options.openOnFocus,
             templates: scope.options.templates,
             debug: scope.options.debug,
+            clearOnSelected: scope.options.clearOnSelected,
             cssClasses: scope.options.cssClasses,
             datasets: scope.datasets,
             keyboardShortcuts: scope.options.keyboardShortcuts,

src/autocomplete/typeahead.js

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ function Typeahead(o) {
   this.openOnFocus = !!o.openOnFocus;
   this.minLength = _.isNumber(o.minLength) ? o.minLength : 1;
   this.autoWidth = (o.autoWidth === undefined) ? true : !!o.autoWidth;
+  this.clearOnSelected = !!o.clearOnSelected;
 
   o.hint = !!o.hint;
 
@@ -417,7 +418,11 @@ _.mixin(Typeahead.prototype, {
     if (typeof datum.value !== 'undefined') {
       this.input.setQuery(datum.value);
     }
-    this.input.setInputValue(datum.value, true);
+    if (this.clearOnSelected) {
+      this.input.setInputValue('', true);
+    } else {
+      this.input.setInputValue(datum.value, true);
+    }
 
     this._setLanguageDirection();
 

src/jquery/plugin.js

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ methods = {
         openOnFocus: o.openOnFocus,
         templates: o.templates,
         debug: o.debug,
+        clearOnSelected: o.clearOnSelected,
         cssClasses: o.cssClasses,
         datasets: datasets,
         keyboardShortcuts: o.keyboardShortcuts,

src/standalone/index.js

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ function autocomplete(selector, options, datasets, typeaheadObject) {
       openOnFocus: options.openOnFocus,
       templates: options.templates,
       debug: options.debug,
+      clearOnSelected: options.clearOnSelected,
       cssClasses: options.cssClasses,
       datasets: datasets,
       keyboardShortcuts: options.keyboardShortcuts,

test/unit/typeahead_spec.js

@@ -342,7 +342,6 @@ describe('Typeahead', function() {
   });
 
   describe('when debug flag is set', function() {
-
     beforeEach(function() {
       this.view = new Typeahead({
         input: this.$input,
@@ -368,6 +367,27 @@ describe('Typeahead', function() {
     });
   });
 
+  describe('when clearOnSelected flag is set to true', function() {
+    it('clears input when selected', function() {
+      var spy = jasmine.createSpy();
+      var view = new Typeahead({
+        input: this.$input,
+        clearOnSelected: true,
+        hint: true,
+        datasets: {}
+      });
+      view.dropdown.getDatumForCursor.and.returnValue(testDatum);
+
+
+      var $e = jasmine.createSpyObj('event', ['preventDefault']);
+      view.$input.on('autocomplete:selected', spy);
+      view.input.trigger('enterKeyed', $e);
+
+      expect(spy).toHaveBeenCalled();
+      expect(view.input.setInputValue).toHaveBeenCalledWith('', true);
+    });
+  });
+
   describe('when input triggers enterKeyed', function() {
     beforeEach(function() {
       this.dropdown.getDatumForCursor.and.returnValue(testDatum);