In web applications we have functionalities like auto suggestions , rating objects, adding to favourites etc which repeat themselves in an application and across applications. So it demands to think about implementing a generic way of rating and adding to user favourites etc and follow DRY principle. Recently in one of my Grails projects we implemented these functionalities in a generic way so that they are reusable and easy to use. Here in this blog, specifically lets look at how we can implement generic auto suggest functionality in Grails. This idea can be extended for other functionalities as well.
Jquery already provides auto suggest functionality. The question here is making functionality generic so that next time we have to use that its a breeze to use. Lets create a tag which can add the necessary jquery code for a text field to have auto suggest capability. Read the rest of this entry »
