Disabling exact match and automatic sorting

[gtaasaan]

There might be a common case to disable displaying only exact matches and removing auto-sorting (sorting before I'm passing the list to awesomplete).

I think the library should have a feature to disable both of these functionalities.

[fractaledmind]

Can't you simply override the filter and sort methods to be essentially non-functional?

[i-like-robots]

Unfortunately making sort non-functional for an array of objects is not quite possible:

If compareFunction(a, b) returns 0, leave a and b unchanged with respect to each other, but sorted with respect to all different elements. Note: the ECMAscript standard does not guarantee this behaviour, and thus not all browsers (e.g. Mozilla versions dating back to at least 2003) respect this.

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/sort

So sort = () => 0 will still sort, E.G. http://jsbin.com/pegojeguve/1/edit?js,console

[vlazar]

Related #16771 and Lea's comment #16771 (comment)

[Chris7]

There is a way around this bug -- add a key to your object that indicates sorting order and sort on it.

[Greggsterr]

For what it's worth, if you comment out .sort(this.sort) (which should be around line 239) then sorting is disabled.

[leondevries]

For people that can't wait till 1.1.2 is released:

aMyArray = ['a', 'aa', 'abc'];
this.Awesomplete = new Awesomplete(input, {
list: aMyArray,
autoFirst: true,
minChars: 0,
maxItems: 999,
sort: (a, b) => {
return aMyArray.indexOf(a.label) < aMyArray.indexOf(b.label) ? -1 : 1;
}
});