When Tokens Include Spaces Using a Space in the Search Term Stops the Suggestions

[xfreshy]

I have spaces in my datums. For instance:

{ value:"apple",tokens:["apple"] }, { value:"great ape",tokens:["great ape"] }

When typing "great" the suggestion returns "great ape". But when typing "great " (with a space), no suggestions are returned.

The main issue here is that I WANT the token to HAVE a space. I don't want this behavior of typing a search like "ap" and getting "great ape" in the results.

[jharding]

Yeah this is a limitation within the matching algorithm used by typeahead.js. In a future release I'd like to look into improving this, but that's probably a ways off.

[dukehoops-zz]

@jharding, if I wanted to override existing matching alg, what method would I look to override in typeahead.js?

-nikita
PS. Thanks for such a nice plugin

[jharding]

Take a look at Dataset#getSuggestions (link). That function splits the query into terms and then passes those terms to Dataset#_getLocalSuggestion. Within that function is where the work is done for finding suggestions.